Tbilisi Theological Seminary

After Georgian independence in 1991 and the concurrent fall of communism and its discouragement of religion, there was interest in creating a successor.

While at the seminary, Stalin met a circle of friends who would go on to be influential in later Marxist politics, including joining the Mesame Dasi party.

In 1903, construction began on a new complex of buildings in the Vake neighborhood of Tiflis, headed by architect Alexander Rogoisky.

One of old buildings in the complex used by the seminary was repurposed to house the Art Museum of Georgia in 1950, the location it still occupies.

Various related topics were also taught, including Church Slavonic, history, mathematics, literature, French, and German.