SHIOMGVIME MONASTERY COMPLEX
40 Km from Tbilisi
6th C
Shiomgvime monastic complex was one of the outstanding religious and cultural centers in the feudal time Georgia.
It was founded in the second half of VI century by one of the Assyrian preachers named Shio. As the sources tell us, Shio spent the last years of his life in dark and deep cave and after demise, according to his will, he was buried there. That is where the name comes from – Shios mgvime (Cave of Shio). His grave in Shiomgvime is a sacred place.