Parekhi

Monastic buildings are sheltered by a horizontal ledge and form an organic whole with the surrounding landscape.

Two ninth-century churches, a single-nave structure and a basilica, stand in the middle of the monastery next to each other.

The path leads to the dwellings of the hermit monks who lived at the Parekhi Monastery and other monastic buildings.

The surrounding mountains are covered with fir, pine, beech and rhododendron bushes.

The most significant of the preserved buildings are two roughly parallel churches located south of the path.

It represents an arched, elongated rectangular hall measuring 11.15 x 4.75 m. It has a semicircular apse (4 x 2.4 meters).

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