Tbilisi Zionist Cathedral

Tbilisi Zionist Cathedral is a Georgian Orthodox cathedral in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. Following a medieval Georgian culture of naming churches after specific locations within the Holy Land, the Sioni Cathedral bears the call of Mount Zion at Jerusalem. It is usually known as the Tbilisi Sioni to differentiate it from several other church buildings across Georgia bearing the name Sioni. The Tbilisi Sioni Cathedral is situated in ancient Sionis Kucha Sioni Street in downtown Tbilisi, with its japanese façade fronting the proper embankment of the Kura River. It become first of all constructed inside the sixth and 7th centuries. Since then, it's been destroyed by means of foreign invaders and reconstructed several times.

The modern-day church is primarily based on a 13th-century model with a few changes from the 17th to nineteenth centuries. The Sioni Cathedral was the principle Georgian Orthodox Cathedral and the seat of Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia until the Holy Trinity Cathedral was consecrated in 2004. According to medieval Georgian annals, the development of the original church on this site was initiated with the aid of King Vakhtang Gorgasali in the 5th century. A hundred years later, Guaram, the prince of Iberia Kartli, in c. 575 started out building a new shape, which turned into finished through his successor Adarnase in circa 639.