Dranda Cathedral

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Dranda Cathedral
Basic information
Location	Dranda, Gulripsh district, Abkhazia (Georgia)
Religious affiliation	Georgian Orthodox
Ecclesiastical status	Cathedral
Architectural description
Year completed	possibly 551 by Emperor of Rome Justinian I
Specifications

Dranda Cathedral is a Georgian Orthodox Cathedral located in Dranda, in the Gulripsh district of the de facto independent Republic of Abkhazia, internationally recognised to constitute a part of Georgia.

According to the Roman historian Procopius of Caesarea, in 551 emperor Justinian I built a temple in these environs, this is believed by some to have been what is now the cathedral in Dranda. In the Georgian Orthodox Catholicate of Abkhazia, Dranda was the seat of a Bishop.

[edit] External references

• Photographs of Dranda Cathedral
• Photographs and background information (Russian)