Vardzia

Five monks still live in this mountain. Every morning at seven they ring the bell in the high arch.

Rat'i Surameli, Duke of Javakheti and Kartli, wearing a sharbush and a front-opening qaba with tiraz, slightly before 1186, Vardzia, southern Georgia, Inv. No. 5246-262.[1]

Tamar in the Church of the Dormition, with a model of the church; an aetiological myth has the young Tamar, when out hunting with Giorgi, lost in the caves; when called for, she replied "I am here, uncle" (Georgian: ) "ak var dzia", giving the site its name[6]

View to the apse and iconostasis or screen decorated with icons that separates the nave from the sanctuary

Vardzia cave monastery (panorama)