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Trinity Church in Gergeti (cargo. გერგეტის წმინდა სამება, Gergetis Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi) is situated at an altitude of 2170 m at the foot of Mount Kazbek along the Georgian Military Road in the Georgian village of Gergeti on the right bank Chheri (tributary of the Terek), directly above the village in the XIV Stepantsminda.Postroennaya in. the shrine is the only cross-domed church in Khevi. Beside the temple is preserved medieval kolokolnya.Vo invasion Tbilisi time on the Persians (1795) in Gergeti sheltered grapevine cross. In Soviet times the church was closed, now returned to the Georgian Orthodox tserkvi.Dopolnenie to the description of Argopavel: The monastery was built in the mountains at an altitude of 2170 meters near the village of Gergeti and Stepantsminda village, against the background of the glaciers of Kazbek and became a symbol of Georgia. During the siege, many of the sacred relics from across the country were brought here for safekeeping.