The Lekarti church of St Nino (Georgian: ლექეთის წმინდა ნინოს ტაძარი; Azerbaijani: Ləkit məbədi) is a Georgian Orthodox Church located 2 km north-east of the village of Lekit of Qakh District, northwestern Azerbaijan, on the border with Georgia. The village's oldest name "Lekarti" (Georgian: ლექართი) is of Georgian origins and means "the place of Georgians". Among the Dagestani Lezgins the village is also known as "Georgians' village".[1][2] In written historic courses which have been saved up to the present, the village has been mentioned for the first time in a Georgian Gospel's Anderdzi (postscript), written in 1300-1310, during the reign of king George V the Brilliant of Georgia. It is said that catholicos of Georgia Ekvtime III visited Lekarti Saint Nino church, then part of the Kak-Eliseni district of the Kakheti province of Kingdom of Georgia.[3]

Lekarti Monastery of Saint Nino
ლექეთის წმინდა ნინოს ტაძარი
Religion
AffiliationGeorgian Orthodox Church
StatusNot functioning
Location
LocationLekit, Qakh District, Azerbaijan
Lekit church is located in Azerbaijan
Lekit church
Shown within Azerbaijan
Geographic coordinates41°29′36″N 46°51′23″E / 41.493333°N 46.856389°E / 41.493333; 46.856389
Miniature model of Lekarti Monastery of Saint Nino in the historical museum of Qakh

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References

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  1. ^ Adamia, Ilia, "Georgian National Architecture", book 3, Saingilo, Tbilisi, 1979, p.p. 124-125; IB335, M-605 (in Georgian)
  2. ^ "Historical Monuments of the South Caucasus". maps.nekeri.net.
  3. ^ Janashvili, Mose, "History of Georgia", Second edition by Zakaria Chichinadze, Tbilisi, 1895, p. 205, [1] (in Georgian)