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The Katskhi Church of Christ the Savior is located in the Chiatura District, in the village of Katskhi, in the Katskhu River Valley. The church was built in the early 11th century. A significant portion of the church was built between 1010 and 1014 by members of the Baghvashi feudal family (a lion and an "aged angel"—figures from the Baghvashi family coat of arms—are depicted on the walls of the main entrance). The church served as the family's ancestral church and burial vault. Liparit IV Baghvashi, one of the most noble and powerful feudal lords in Georgian history, is buried here (he died in 1064). After the Baghvashi family was defeated and forced to flee Georgia, the church was destroyed. The abandoned and ruined church was restored in the 16th century by its new owner, Abulasar Amirejibi. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Katskhi Church belonged to the Abashidze family, and from the 1750s, it came into the possession of the royal family.

The Katskhi Church is surrounded by a pentagonal fence. The church has an ancient bell tower, which also serves as the church's gate. The church in Katskhi is one of the most original and outstanding monuments of Georgian architecture. Architectural monuments with such forms are found nowhere else. The building consists of three levels: an entrance protruding from the base, the main body, and the dome drum. The church has six apses. It was entirely decorated with carved ornaments, but in 1854, after the Exarchate of the Russian Church carried out restoration work, the ornaments were removed and the frescoes were painted over. At the top of each entrance to the church are bas-reliefs (mostly depicting lions). All the bas-reliefs in the church bear inscriptions in the Old Georgian alphabet – asomtavruli. Most of the inscriptions contain symbolic abbreviations.

The Church of the Great Martyrs, Motsameta, is located 6 kilometers east of Kutaisi, in the Tskaltsitela River valley. The monastery's founding is linked to the princes of Argveti, David and Konstantin Mkheidze. The brothers were executed for their devotion to Christianity by the Arab warlord Murvan Kru (Murvan the Deaf), who invaded Georgia in 736-738. For their heroic and martyric deaths, the church canonized the brothers. Their holy relics originally rested in the destroyed Church of the Annunciation. In the 11th century, Bagrat III rebuilt the church and reburied the remains of the martyrs there. Between 1844 and 1865, under the leadership of Kutaisi Bishop David Tsereteli, the church was renovated and expanded. It was during this time that a dome was erected, a stone floor was laid, and the iconostasis was renovated. In 1923, the Bolsheviks closed the church, removed the saints' relics from the tombs, and threw them into the river. Local residents managed to retrieve the holy relics from the water and transfer them to the Kutaisi Museum. The Motsameta Church reopened in 1954, and that same year, the relics of Saints David and Constantine were once again transferred from the Kutaisi Museum to the church. The Day of the Holy Martyrs is celebrated on October 15.