House and Church of the Reverend Father Gabriel Urgebadze (The city of Tbilissi)
Reverend Father Gabriel (Saint Gabriel, Confessor and Fool for Christ)(Georg. წმ. ღირსი მამა გაბრიელი აღმსარებელი-სალოსი), in the courtyard of his own house, he built a small church from scrap materials.
Father Gabriel (Georg. წმინდა მამა გაბრიელ ურგებაძე) found icons for this church in city dumps, where in those godless years numerous holy objects were thrown out along with garbage.
Father Gabriel had a small workshop where he cleaned icons and made frames for them from various materials. He even framed photographs and images of icons from secular magazines.
The government destroyed the church four times, and Father Gabriel restored it four times. By the grace of God, the temple survived years of misfortune. Today Orthodox believers from all over the world come here and ask Father Gabriel for spiritual peace and help.
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