Lekit church

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.

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".

[1][2] 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.