The tradition of the Church

Picture from the series "Spirit of the Time." The work tells about the famous Mokva temple of the X century, built by Tsar Leon III (955 - 957 years) in Abkhazia. The temple is dedicated to the Assumption of the Mother of God. The only five-nave cross-domed church on the territory of the Republic of Abkhazia underwent repeated ruin in the 17th century, in 1920, then during the Abkhazian Georgian war. Each time the temple was reborn from the ashes. Today Mokva temple is locked. Opens as a watchman upon request. The murals were destroyed, beaten off with a chisel, lonely small icons hung on top of wounded wall surfaces … Only a modest church plate, against the backdrop of a ruined interior, barely sends to the former magnificence of the decoration of the temple.