Zeda Tmogvi

Zeda Tmogvi (Georgian: ზედა თმოგვი) is a medieval Christian church in south Georgia, in the historical province of Javakheti (now part of Aspindza Municipality).

The extant building is a three-nave basilica, built in the reign of Bagrat IV of Georgia (1027–1072) on the place of an earlier church.

The Zeda Tmogvi church stands in the middle of a settlement, which was left to ruin and decay after the deportation of local Muslim villagers by the Soviet Union in 1944.

The toponym Zeda Tmogvi itself is first mentioned in an Ottoman fiscal document dated to 1595 and an 18th-century Georgian chronicle relating the 1576 events in Samtskhe.

It is a three-nave basilica built of neatly hewn grey basalt blocks and roofed with stone slabs.

Zeda Tmogvi. Ornamentation and an inscription on the south façade.