Another view of the houses and church together. In the Soviet period Metekhi Church was used as a youth theater but returned to the Goergian Orthodox Church after independence in 1991. On the left bank of the river close to the center of town.
Another view of Metekhi Church on bluff above the river Mtkvari, in the 19th century the Church was surrounded by a fortress which included a prison where Stalin was, for a time, incarcerated. This was demolished after the Bolsheviks came to power.
Church and the small village of Ananuri on the Georgian military highway, about 60 kilometers north of Tbilisi, .Since this picture was taken a massive reservoir which supplies Tblisis with water has been constructed just below the church.
Metekhi church overlooking the river Mtkvarii which runs through the center of Tbilisi. The river Mtkvari rises in northeastern Turkey, crosses the Transcaucasian isthmus and flows into the Caspian Sea.
