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Lekit church

Coordinates: 41°29′36″N 46°51′23″E / 41.493333°N 46.856389°E / 41.493333; 46.856389
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Lekit church
Lekarti Monastery of Saint Nino
  • Georgian: ლექეთის წმინდა ნინოს ტაძარი
  • Azerbaijani: Ləkit məbədi
Ruins of the former monastery, in 2021
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41°29′36″N 46°51′23″E / 41.493333°N 46.856389°E / 41.493333; 46.856389
LocationLekit, Qakh District
CountryAzerbaijan
DenominationGeorgian Orthodox Church (former)
History
StatusMonastery (former)
DedicationSaint Nino
Architecture
Functional statusAbandoned
(ruinous state)

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.

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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.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ Adamia, Ilia (1979). Georgian National Architecture (in Georgian). Vol. 3. Tbilisi: Saingilo. pp. 124–125, IB335, M-605.
  2. ^ "Historical Monuments of the South Caucasus". maps.nekeri.net.
  3. ^ Janashvili, Mose (1895). History of Georgia (in Georgian) (Second ed.). Tbilisi: Zakaria Chichinadze. p. 205.