Korogho church

The Korogho church of the Mother of God (Georgian: ქოროღოს ღვთისმშობლის ეკლესია, romanized: koroghos ghvtismshoblis ek'lesia) is a Georgian Orthodox church in eastern Georgia, situated in the mountainous Khada gorge in the historical and cultural province of Mtiuleti, now part of the Dusheti Municipality.

[2] Korogho is a hall church design, covered with a gable roof, its interior being divided into two naves in the western part.

An 11th-century ivory icon of the Theotokos and a cross with the depiction of the Savior, found in a den of the church, is now on display at the Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi.

A lintel on the western façade, made of large hewn plates, is adorned with sculptures depicting various aspects of construction work, from quarrying, transporting, and finishing of the stone to the workers taking refreshment.

[3][4] The western façade also bears two inscriptions carved in a medieval Georgian asomtavruli script and paleographically dated to the 12th century.