Georgia
Georgian Church criticises Ministry of Culture over monastery restoration
The Ministry of Culture has found itself at odds with the Georgian Patriarchate over a report criticising the ministry’s restoration work on the Gelati Monastery in western Georgia. The report was issued by the Chubinashvili National Research Centre for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation, a subagency of the Ministry of Culture. The centre described the restoration of the monastery as falling ‘far behind modern international standards’. It cited a November 2022 report made by t
