Gelati monastery complex is located in 11 km to the north-east from the city of Kutaisi. It was founded by the king of Georgia, David IV Agmashenebeli (1089-1125). Gelati Academy – the most important education center in the medieval Georgia – is part of the Gelati monastery complex. Gelati was a royal monastery in XII-XV centuries and reported directly to the kind and the Prime Minister. In 1923 the Bolsheviks closed the monastery. Its renovation occurred in 1990.