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Encyclopedia Britannica



GELATI

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 554 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GELATI , a Georgian monastery in Russian Transcaucasia, in the government of
Kutais
 , 11 m. E. of the town of
Kutais
 ,
standing
  on a rocky spur (705 ft. above sea-level) in the valley of the Rion. It was founded in 1109 by the Georgian king
David
  the Renovator. The
principal
 
church
 , a
sandstone
 
cathedral
 ,
dates
  from the end of the preceding century, and contains the royal crown of the former Georgian.kingdom of Imeretia, besides ancient MSS., ecclesiological furniture, and fresco portraits of the kings of Imeretia. Here also, in a
separate
  chapel, is the tomb of
David
  the Renovator (1089-1125) and part of the iron gate of the town of Ganja (now Elisavetpol), which that monarch brought away as a
trophy
  of his capture of the place.


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