| Lekit church | |
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| Lekarti Monastery of Saint Nino | |
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 Ruins of the former monastery, in 2021 | |
| 41°29′36″N 46°51′23″E / 41.493333°N 46.856389°E / 41.493333; 46.856389 | |
| Location | Lekit, Qakh District |
| Country | Azerbaijan |
| Denomination | Georgian Orthodox Church (former) |
| History | |
| Status | Monastery (former) |
| Dedication | Saint Nino |
| Architecture | |
| Functional status | Abandoned (ruinous state) |
The Lekart church (Georgian: ლექეთის წმინდა ნინოს ტაძარი; Azerbaijani: Ləkit məbədi), officially the Lekarti Monastery of Saint Nino, is a former Georgian Orthodox church, located 2 km (1.2 mi) north-east of the village of Lekit in the Qakh District of northwestern Azerbaijan, on the border with Georgia.
Overview
The village's oldest name "Lekarti" (Georgian: ლექართი) is of Georgian origins and means "the place of Georgians". Among the Dagestani Lezgins the village is also known as "Georgians' village". In written historic courses which have been saved up to the present, the village has been mentioned for the first time in a Georgian Gospel's Anderdzi (postscript), written in 1300-1310, during the reign of king George V the Brilliant of Georgia. It is said that Catholicos of Georgia Ekvtime III visited Lekarti Saint Nino church, then part of the Kak-Eliseni district of the Kakheti province of Kingdom of Georgia.
Gallery
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Miniature model of the monastery in the historical museum of Qakh
See also
- Georgia–Azerbaijan relations
- Christianity in Azerbaijan
- Church of Kish
- Bana cathedral
- Katskhi Monastery
References
- Adamia, Ilia (1979). Georgian National Architecture (in Georgian). Vol. 3. Tbilisi: Saingilo. pp. 124–125, IB335, M-605.
- "Historical Monuments of the South Caucasus". maps.nekeri.net.
- Janashvili, Mose (1895). History of Georgia (in Georgian) (Second ed.). Tbilisi: Zakaria Chichinadze. p. 205.
| Georgian cathedrals, monasteries and churches in Azerbaijan | |
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