Intercession missionary ეკლესია Sands

 Georgia > Tbilisi

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Sands area (Costa Rica) in Tbilisi is located on the left bank of the Kura River, between Avlabari and Chugureti. In the nineteenth century there were located handicraft workshops in various fields, and trade and marketplaces. Sand population was multinational and multi-confessional, but most of it was made of Molokans. In this area in Tiflis church was not, and "Society recovery of Orthodox Christianity in the Caucasus" in January 1892 at the address. Peskovskaya nº47 opened a house of worship. In the future, home lengthen the dome and have equipped it 1st missionary Church of the Intercession of the Virgin. There is a picture of the place until 1892, when the church was organized. Church did not last long. Due to the fact that the area of Sand during the floods and rains often flooded, a new church in Chugureti district was built in 1908.