The present Georgian church was built from the remains of the second in 1730.
And what of the region's other great attraction, the Georgian churches?
The church is "an unusual survival of a small Georgian church".
Artvin is the best base from which to explore Georgian churches.
He was canonized by the Georgian church in 2011.
By the 1770s, it had been listed among the emptied eparchies of the Georgian church.
The small Georgian church was completed in 1809.
Near the northern part of the ramparts and off of the main square is a beautiful, but abandoned, Georgian church.
Together with being free of tax, Georgian Orthodox Church also gets some financing from the government as well.
She was eventually canonized by the Georgian church.