The monastery complex consists of the main hall church, a free-standing bell-tower, and ruins of various structures such as a palace, cells, chapels, wine-cellar, and stables.

More recently, Gurand Mchedlidze illustrated that this Rusudan could have been a daughter of King Demetrius II of Georgia and the construction of the church could have been started no earlier than 1282.

On 24 August 1643, King Rostom, himself a Muslim, granted the monastery to the princely family of Germanozishvili, a branch of the great house of Baratashvili.

By 1756, both the princely family and the monastery had gone in significant decline; constant warfare and political instability depopulated the Gudarekhi area and the wider Kvemo Kartli region.

The southern wall, at the entrance, carries a seven-line inscription in the medieval Georgian asomtavruli script, which mentions the architect Chichaporisdze, Queen Rusudan, her children, and the bishop Anton of Manglisi.

[3] The interior is painted with the faded, partially fallen frescoes of the Archangels—accompanied by the 17th-century Greek inscriptions identifying Michael and Gabriel—and the saints George, Demetrius, and Theodore.