Kopala Botigori stands near Lapankuri village in Telavi Municipality. The hall is small, about five and a half metres by four, but its masonry is unusual: large, entirely undressed fragments went into the work, with single stones up to a metre and a half thick and the gaps between them packed with small stone and plaster.
Finely worked shirimi stones turn up here and there in the upper part of the walls. The inner masonry is of arbitrary shape as well, though noticeably smaller. Sources assign the building to the 14th and 15th centuries.
Today the monument stands to about half its height. The tops of the walls are almost entirely gone, only a small stretch of the vaulted covering survives on the north side, and most of the facade masonry has fallen. The single entrance was on the south and part of its jambs survives. A semicircular apse with a small window adjoins the hall, covered by a single arch hewn from the same stone as the dressing.
💡 Tip
- Masonry of large undressed fragments
- Single stones up to a metre and a half thick
- Only a stretch of the vault survives on the north side
🚗 Getting there
- Lapankuri village, Telavi Municipality, Kakheti
- The Build Route button will take you to the spot
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