Tigva Monastery

South Ossetia, Georgia · built 1101

The Tigva Monastery of the Dormition of the Mother of God is a medieval Georgian Orthodox monastic church at the village of Tigva in the Prone river valley in what is now the disputed territory of South Ossetia. The monastery building is a domed cross-in-square design. It was founded by Tamar, daughter of King David IV of Georgia, who is commemorated in a Georgian inscription dated to 1152.

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