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SAINT GEVORG CHURCH COLLAPSED BECAUSE OF INDIFFERENCE
Aysor
Nov 20 2009
Armenia
"The collapse of the Saint Gevorg of Mughni, Church in Tbilisi is
the result of the indifference of the Georgian government", - the
historian, expert of the Armenian architecture Samvel Karapetyan
thinks.
Today he said that one year ago he has been in Tbilisi and has seen
the hopless state of the church.
"Until 1989, the church served as a museum of folk art, after
removing of which around 20 years the church ahs been left careless
and unprotected. The walls were cracked and there was the danger of
collapsing. It was possible to keep it at least with the columns.
S. Karapetyan mentioned that there can't be even a word about
mechanical damaging or blowing it out.
Aysor
Nov 20 2009
Armenia
"The collapse of the Saint Gevorg of Mughni, Church in Tbilisi is
the result of the indifference of the Georgian government", - the
historian, expert of the Armenian architecture Samvel Karapetyan
thinks.
Today he said that one year ago he has been in Tbilisi and has seen
the hopless state of the church.
"Until 1989, the church served as a museum of folk art, after
removing of which around 20 years the church ahs been left careless
and unprotected. The walls were cracked and there was the danger of
collapsing. It was possible to keep it at least with the columns.
S. Karapetyan mentioned that there can't be even a word about
mechanical damaging or blowing it out.