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Vardzia (Georgian: ვარძია) is a cave monastery site in southern Georgia, excavated from the slopes of the Erusheti Mountain on the left bank of the Kura River, thirty kilometres from Aspindza. The main period of construction was the second half of the twelfth century.
Vanis Kvabebi (Georgian: ვანის ქვაბები; English: Vani's Caves) is a cave monastery in Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Georgia near Aspindza town and the more famous cave city of Vardzia. The complex dates from 8th century and consists of a defensive wall built in 1204 and a maze of tunnels running on several levels in the ...
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Vardzia Cave Monastery (). A cave monastery is a monastery built in caves, with possible outside facilities.The 3rd-century monk St. Anthony the Great, known as the founder of monasticism, lived in a cave.
Lavra, a type of monastery consisting of a cluster of cells or caves for hermits Metochion , an ecclesiastical embassy church within the Eastern Orthodox tradition Stauropegion , a monastery or parish not under the jurisdiction of the local bishop, but directly under the primate or Holy Synod of a particular Church.