Cultural-historical and Architectural-artistic Analysis of the Ruined Kaloubani and Amаghlebа Temples in Tbilisi

Abstract

In Tbilisi, representatives of different denominations have never fought each other on religious grounds, unless we count the Bolsheviks and their "League of Militant Atheists", who from the end of the 1920s declared a fight against representatives of all religions and destroyed many churches. Among the many religious buildings destroyed in Tbilisi during the Soviet period are two Orthodox churches – St. George's Cathedral in Kaloubani, which was built on the ruins of an old Georgian temple in the 50s of the 19th century during the annexation of Russia, and the Amaghleba church in Sololaki, built by Platon Ioseliani in 1852. The last was built according to the Greek temple and renovated at the end of the 19th century. The article presents the culturalhistorical and architectural-artistic analysis of the churches destroyed by the Soviet authorities since the 1930s, the reasons for their construction and destruction.