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Tbilisi Sacred Places Walk

Tbilisi Sacred Places Walk

Tbilisi · Georgia

9 stops8.0 km5 h 6 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Follow a walking route through Tbilisi’s mosques, churches, cathedral, basilica, and a former church building. You will encounter different forms of sacred architecture, from the Tbilisi Juma Mosque to the city’s historic Orthodox churches. Pause at each stop to notice its setting, façade, scale, and continuing place in the city’s religious landscape. The route is a rewarding way to experience Tbilisi through the buildings where worship, memory, and community meet.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 9. The rest are in the app.

  1. Tbilisi Juma Mosque

    Tbilisi Juma Mosque

    Tbilisi Juma Mosque, a Muslim place of worship

  2. Saint Nicholas Church in Kharpukhi

    Saint Nicholas Church in Kharpukhi

    A Greek-founded church whose walls preserve two different dates for its completion.

  3. Metekhi Church

    Metekhi Church

    A cliffside church rebuilt by a medieval king, then used as a prison, storehouse, theatre, and church again.

  4. 3 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Sioni Cathedral

    Sioni Cathedral

    Christian church in Tbilisi, Georgia

  6. Anchiskhati Basilica

    Anchiskhati Basilica

    Tbilisi’s oldest surviving church, carrying a sixth-century foundation and a remarkably restless history.

  7. Kashueti St. George Church

    Kashueti St. George Church

    Kashueti St. George Church, a Christian place of worship in Tbilisi

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 3 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

3 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 9 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

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  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.