Here’s another flashback from my student days. While I was…
Here’s another flashback from my student days.
While I was elbow-deep restoring the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl during my freshman year, my best friend — just one drafting table over — was pouring his soul into a model of the Gergeti Trinity Church in Georgia.
Ask him even today what he thinks is the most beautiful Orthodox building in the world, and without skipping a beat, he’ll say that one.
It’s not a flashy kind of beauty — it’s severe, silent, and sublime. The kind of beauty that doesn’t scream — it hums in perfect harmony with the Caucasus mountains behind it. The facades are stripped-down, almost monastic, and yet they hold their own against the drama of the landscape. That restraint? It’s intentional. It’s poetry written in stone.
Because the best architecture doesn’t compete with nature — it completes it.
Think of Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, spilling over a waterfall like it grew there. Or the cliff-hugging monasteries of Meteora in Greece. They weren’t built on the land — they were built with it.
Gergeti Trinity Church is more than just a church — it’s a global treasure.
A quiet icon of architectural heritage that’s shaped generations of architects and carved the idea of “the beautiful” deep into our collective consciousness.
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