First Steps in the Development of Georgian Ecclesiastic Architecture: Materials and Considetations

Abstract

Even today, in the works of the majority of Georgian art historians, we cannot see any protest against the rather strange supposition, hastily elaborated in the 1920s, according to which allegedly, unlike the whole early Christian world, the Iberian authorities, during more than a century after the recognition of Christianity as the state religion, built exceptionally miniature or rather small churches without any canonical design.