Travel in Khashuri

The church of Tsromi is an early medieval church in village Tsromi, in the vicinity of town Khashuri, in Shida Kartli region of Georgia. It is situated at the center of the village, along the right side of the river Mtkvari (Kura).

According to the southern façade, the temple construction dates to the years 626–634, when it was built during the reign of Stephen II of Iberia. The monument was strongly affected and got even worse during the earthquake in 1940. Now the temple is fortified.

The domed temple represents a beautiful monument of Georgian architecture, distinguished by complex, but harmonious composition. Its artistic importance is comparable with Jvari Monastery in Mtskheta. At the same time it contains sings being the basis of the further development of Georgian church architecture of the Middle Ages. Actually from this very moment begins the life of original Georgian architecture.

The temple is a ″drawn-inside cross″ type; the basis of its plan is an equiangular cross. It is the first Georgian church, where the dome rests on four free pillars. It also gave freedom to walls and opened new perspectives in the Georgian architecture.

The exterior is modestly decorated. The eastern facade is the most distinguished, cut with two deep triangular niches. Such niches by the side of the apse appeared for the first time in Tsromi to later become characteristic Georgian temple decoration.

The interior is illuminated through high windows in the dome and each cross arm. The temple decoration is scant. The conch of the temple altar was decorated with contemporaneous mosaic, depicting Christ and two apostles, the reserved fragments of which are kept in the Museum of Art of Georgia since 1930s. The prothesis and the sacristy are in eastern part, on the altar sides. Each of them has cross-shaped and octangular vaults.

The stairs in the northern corner lead to the choir above the narthex, meant for nobility, women and singers.

Youth Culture and Post-Soviet Transformations in Khashuri

Youth Culture and Post-Soviet Transformations in Khashuri

In Soviet times, Khashuri was known under the name Stalinisi, and as an industrial town producing glass and woven products. Khashuri Railway Station and the city’s central location in Georgia made Khashuri a major transportation node. However, after Soviet collapse, these economic and infrastructural relationships disintegrated. This affected the micro economy in Khashuri, and a process of abandonment begun. When people couldn’t find jobs in the city, they started migrating both within Georgia and to abroad. The landscape in Khashuri is now characterized by abandoned factories, and the Soviet legacy is still visible.

Being presented as one of the most forgettable cities in Georgia by lecturers, we wanted to look behind the “dull” and “uninspiring” surface of the city and investigate how the inhabitants themselves perceive their hometown. In particular, we wanted to learn more about the everyday life of the young inhabitants, their living conditions and plans for the future.

How, if at all, do the remnants of the past influence the young population’s ideas of the future? What factors are keeping them stay, when everyone else are apparently moving away? Is there any signs of remigration? Thus, our main research question was “what factors contribute to the young generation’s feeling of attachment to homeland?”

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