Shermadin Sharia, Bedia Monastery Complex, Tbilisi, 2021

Abstract

The given scientific – popular book, as the title suggests, is dedicated to the history of a prominent monument of Georgian cultural heritage, Bedia Cathedral and the monastery complex established around it. The paper has not only cognitive but also social significance, as this great monument of Georgian Christian culture is located in the territory of occupied Abkhazia.
The aim of the book is to introduce the history of the monument from the day of its foundation (end of the X century) until now. The structure of the paper is also relevant to the aim and includes all the main aspects of the adventures related to the monastery.
The book contains and analyses the vast material such as written sources and scientific literature available today about the Bedia Monastery complex, which, for obvious reasons, are scattered in various publications and are less accessible to the general public interested in this monument. The value of the book under consideration and the author’s merit is that everything the generations of historians, philologists, art critics, archeologists, and epigraphists had created is gathered and organized here.