Skhalta Cathedral

The Skhalta Cathedral is a Georgian Orthodox monastery and cathedral church in Adjara, Georgia, relationship from the mid-thirteenth century. It is a large hall church design, with fragments of the 14th or 15th century Paleologian-style wall painting. The Skhalta monastery is located on a hill within the eponymous river valley, at the village of Q'inchauri, Khulo municipality, alongside a street, which, in the Middle Ages, strategically related Adjara with Artani. The written assets on Skhalta are scarce.

A legend attributes the construction of the church to Queen Tamar, who presided over the "Golden Age" of medieval Georgia. Modern research date the church to the center of the thirteenth century. At that time, the Skhalta valley turned into in possession of the noble family of Abuserisdze. After the Ottoman conquest of the vicinity within the 16th century, the church turned into deserted. The monastery became rediscovered and sketched with the aid of Giorgi Kazbegi, the Georgian officer within the Russian carrier, who turned into in Ottoman Georgia on a reconnaissance venture in 1874.