[1] St. George is perched on a hill, surrounded by a village cemetery, at the hamlet of Nakipari, part of the Ipari territorial unit, Mestia Municipality, at about 1700 metres above sea level.

It is adorned with a decorative tripartite arcade framed by massive projecting pilasters and bears frescoes and zoomorphic sculptures in relief.

According to a Georgian asomtavruli inscription on a cornice of the iconostasis, the paintings were commissioned by the local nobility (aznauri) from Tevdore, "a royal painter", in 1130.

Nakipari is the last church unquestionably painted, after Iprari and Lagurka, by Tevdore; murals at Tsvirmi are conditionally credited to him based on stylistic considerations.

The conch traditionally bears the Deesis with the seated Christ flanked by Mary and John the Baptist, with the angels in the background.

[2] The church preserves an 11th-century repoussé silver icon of St. George of Ipari, showing the equestrian saint killing Diocletian.