Dolishane Church
It is located in Hamamlı Village of the Central District. It can be reached by a 6-kilometer road from the Berta bridge location of the Artvin-Shavşat highway towards the northwest. According to the inscription, it was built by the Xth Bagratian King Sumbath. Only the church of the monastery, part of which was also used as a mosque after the XVIth century, has survived to the present day. According to the inscriptions in the church, the monastery was built by Sumbath, who was king between 954-958 in Tao-Klardjethie of the Kingdom of Iberia, to Architect Gabriel. The building, which continued its activities as a monastery until the XIVth century, was converted into a mosque in the XVIth century. In 1958, it was partially repaired and took its final form. There are two inscriptions that have survived to the present day. The building, which was built as a monastery, only has a church today. The building is rectangular in the east-west direction measuring 20.20x13.20 meters externally and has a free cross plan internally. The building has survived to the present day in a way that can be called intact. On the eastern façade of the church are the pastophorion rooms and the surfaces of the apse. The triangular pedimented apse has a round arched and rectangular window on the axis of its facade. The western façade consists of the western cross arm and additional spaces on both sides. The facade, most of which has been destroyed, has a triangular pediment with a destroyed door and windows on the central axis. As for the north façade, this façade consists of the north cross arm, prothesis and side space surfaces.The pastophorion rooms with double chamfered cross arms and the spaces on the sides are covered with single chamfered roofs.
