community
Bolnisi Sioni
Bolnisi, Kvemo Kartli, Georgia · Armenia & Georgia
41.389, 44.513
Attested. Attested by the standing building and its dated inscriptions.
The basilica of Bolnisi Sioni was built in the late 5th century and is the oldest surviving dated church in Georgia. Its building inscriptions, dated to 493/494, are among the oldest dated texts in the Georgian alphabet. They show a literate Georgian church just over a century after the conversion.
Source stance: neutral. Epigraphy and architecture.
People and groups named here
- Builders and clergy named in the Georgian inscriptions
Sources
- Bolnisi Sioni (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Pleiades place 863760: Bolnisi
Pleiades Gazetteer (ISAW, NYU). Accessed 2026-11-11.
Further reading
Councils here
None in this list.