Ambara church

The Ambara church is located in the Gudauta District, Abkhazia/Georgia, on the cape of Myussera, close to the mouth of the Ambara stream.

Ruins of the Ambara church around 1899.

The Ambara church complex consists of a half-ruined three-nave basilica, a stone fence and remains of several additional secular structures, dated by scholars from the 8th to the 10th century. The basilica has a roughly processed ashlar stone surface, a two-storey narthex and an upper gallery on the west facade. The main nave vault bears traces of the Late Medieval reconstruction.[1][2]

The Ambara church is one of the tourist destinations in Abkhazia. The area is reportedly increasingly being littered.[3] Georgia has inscribed the church on its list of cultural heritage and treats it as part of cultural heritage in the Russian-occupied territories with no known current state of condition.[1]

References

Gelenava, Irakli, ed. (2015). Cultural Heritage in Abkhazia (PDF). Tbilisi: Meridiani. p. 20.
Rcheulishvili, Levan (1988). Купольная архитектура VIII - X веков в Абхазии [Domed architecture of the 8th-10th centuries in Abkhazia] (in Russian). Tbilisi: Metsniereba. pp. 72–75.
Solovyeva, Y. (10 October 2013). "Цивилизация добралась и до урочища Амбара. Теперь и здесь мусор!". Respublika Abkhaziya. Retrieved 13 March 2017.

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[meca-1] Gelenava, Irakli, ed. (2015). Cultural Heritage in Abkhazia (PDF). Tbilisi: Meridiani. p. 20.

[2] Rcheulishvili, Levan (1988). Купольная архитектура VIII - X веков в Абхазии [Domed architecture of the 8th-10th centuries in Abkhazia] (in Russian). Tbilisi: Metsniereba. pp. 72–75.

[3] Solovyeva, Y. (10 October 2013). "Цивилизация добралась и до урочища Амбара. Теперь и здесь мусор!". Respublika Abkhaziya. Retrieved 13 March 2017.