Shashlik

Fashion

Blue Square

Tbilisi Daily Photo is taking a break for the holidays and will return on 3 January.

Devotion

Chekhov Street

Churches

Another view of Tbilisi's many churches.

Sioni Cathedral

The outside of the Sioni Cathdral, one of Tbilisi's most important orthodox churches.

Cross

A cross on top of the bell tower of the Kari Church of St George in Kashveli Street.

Saint

A image of a saint set into a wall in Kashveli Street.

Bottles

Descent

Upper Betlemi Church

The top of the tower and decorative cross of the Upper Betlemi Church which stands beneath the Narikala Fortress.

Churches

Tbilisi is a city of churches, many of them tightly packed into the old town. In this view the church on the right is Sioni Cathedral, formerly the seat of the Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church. The tower at the bottom of the picture belongs to the Jvarismama church. The large church to its left is the Norashen church. This was originally an Armenian church but is currently closed - and crumbling - because of a dispute between the Georgian church and the Armenian church over ownership. The city's only synagogue and only mosque are both located within a few hundred yards of this group of churches.

Downtown

Tree

Just a small tree I saw growing by this colourful wall on a small street downtown.

Sioni Cathedral Interior

Aview looking up into the dome of the Cathedral.

Sioni Cathedral 3

A view of one of the grave markers set into the ground by the walls of Sioni Cathedral.

Sioni Cathedral 2

On the other side of the Cathedral from that shown in yesterday's picture, this green bench stands before some grave markers set into the ground.

Sioni Cathedral

I saw these two sitting on a bench outside the church having a chat but didn't want to be too intrusive.

Georgian

Georgian uses its own unique alphabet. This is a sample of printed Georgian on Lezelidze Street in the Old Town. I'm currently trying to learn some Georgian and managed to successfully negotiate the city Metro system last week.