Monuments and Churches

The monuments of Tbilisi tell its story in bronze and stone. Above the Tbilisi Sea rise the huge carved pillars of the Chronicle of Georgia by Zurab Tsereteli, a golden St George stands on a tall column on Freedom Square, and Mother Georgia with her sword and wine bowl looks over the night city from the Sololaki ridge. A park in Varketili holds a memorial to the Georgian Righteous Among the Nations and a bust of Iliko Sukhishvili, a co-founder of the Georgian National Ballet. Bronze figures also stand on the embankment near the Public Service Hall. District churches complete the page: the stone church of Didi Lilo and All Saints church in Zemo Ponichala.

Old stone church of Didi Lilo with a brick bell cote above the gable

Weathered stone church of Didi Lilo on a hillside under a grey sky

Memorial to the Georgian Righteous Among the Nations in a Varketili park

Small Georgian Orthodox church wedged among new apartment blocks on a Tbilisi hillside

Illuminated hillside church at night behind a grapevine trellis in Tbilisi

Marble stele with a bust of dancer Iliko Sukhishvili in a Varketili park

All Saints church of Zemo Ponichala glowing at sunset above Tbilisi apartment blocks

Bronze statue of a kneeling woman in prayer on a Tbilisi square

Massive carved pillars of the Chronicle of Georgia monument above a long stairway in Tbilisi

Golden Saint George monument on its column above Freedom Square in central Tbilisi

Memorial stone to the Georgian Righteous Among the Nations lit at night

Mother Georgia statue overlooking the lights of night Tbilisi under a large rising moon

Monument of a man wrestling a tiger above stone slabs carved with Georgian verses

Bronze dancing figures on a riverside railing with the Public Service Hall behind in Tbilisi

Bronze figure sculpture on a river embankment railing in Tbilisi in golden autumn light