Georgian Orthodox Church celebrates on August 28 one of the twelve major festivals of the year – Mariamoba.
The festive services were held in all functioning Churches of Georgia.
Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is set by Church for a long time. It is mentioned in the writings of St. Augustine and Hieronymus.
It is well known that Georgia is the cradle of viticulture and wine-making. Real Georgian wine long has been valued in the world. It is suffice to say that in ancient times the Greek traders as payment for their products, taking as rule gold, instead of it willingly took Georgian wine – a wine of ancient Colchis.
Unique archaeological finds were discovered on Pikris Gora (mountain) in the town of Mtskheta (the ancient capital of Georgia, located near Tbilisi) during construction works on private site in the territory of old graves, according to the Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia.
By law, the construction works has been suspended and for the archaeologists began investigations who work on the Pikris Gora (mountain) since the end of July – when finds were discovered. In the study area they have discovered and studied early medieval burial, among them – five kinds of...
Georgian Orthodox Church celebrates one of the most important religious holidays of the country – Svetitskhovloba, dedicated Heaton Lord and that exhales a miraculous life-giving pillar of world.
Scientists from the Center of the National Museum of Archaeology of Georgia under the direction of Zurab Maharadze found a rich burial place, in which there were two chariots, gold artifacts and remains of sacrifices. Burial is dated II millennium BC and belongs to a senior official. This was said by expedition leader at the International Congress on the Archaeology of the Middle East.
The Georgian Orthodox Church celebrates tomorrow one of the most important religious holidays of the country – Svetitskhovloba dedicated to Lord Heaton and exudes a miraculous world Pillar of Life-giving.
April 14 – Georgia celebrates Mother Language Day.35 years ago, in 1978, the Soviet government decided to deprive the local languages of the Union Republics status of official languages. The official language of the USSR proclaimed only the Russian language.