Church of Saint George (Kldisubani)

გიორგის ეკლესია, Kldisubnis Tsminda Giorgis Eklesia; Armenian: Քարափի Սուրբ Գևորգ եկեղեցի, or Karapi Surb Gevorg Yekeghetsi[2]) is an 18th-century church at the foot of the Narikala citadel in Old Tbilisi, Georgia.

The Kldisubani church of st. George has reached modern days with the help of Armenian merchant Petros Zohrabian and his wife Lolita, and the restoration held by them in 1735.

[4] In the year 1735 according to the map of prince Vakhushti there was a belltower at the west of the church.

[3] According to Samvel Karapetyan, a prominent Armenian researcher of Armenian architecture, the church was systematically appropriated by the Georgian Orthodox Church shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s.

[2] The appropriation meant the removal of all traces of the Armenian history of the church: The metal Armenian ornamental crosses remained intact on the church's two cupolas until 1990;[2] In April 1990, the crosses that were seen as "Armenian" were removed;[2] In March–April 1990, the church's main altar and another smaller altar used for baptism were destroyed;[2] A khachkar with an inscription that was part of an interior wall was removed sometime between 1990 and 1991;[2] Also, the Armenian inscription on the wall of the northern entrance that attests to the 1753 construction of the church disappeared in 1990.