The Zarzma Monastery of Transfiguration (Georgian: ზარზმის მონასტერი, zarzmis p'erists'valebis monasteri) is a medieval Orthodox Christian monastery located at the village of Zarzma in Samtskhe-Javakheti region, southwest Georgia.
The Zarzma monastery is nested in the forested river valley of Kvabliani and its tributary Dzindze in the Adigeni municipality, 30 km west of the city of Akhaltsikhe. It is the complex of a series of buildings dominated by a domed church and a belfry, one of the largest in Georgia.[1]
^(in Georgian) Zakaraia, Parmen (1981), ქართული ცენტრალურ-გუმბათოვანი არქიტექტურა XI-XVIII სს. (Georgian centrally-planned domed architecture of the 11th-18th centuries). Tbilisi: pp. 56-88.
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