Veran-Gareja Cave Monastery (David Gareja)
Veran-Gareja Cave Monastery (Georgian: გარეჯის ვერანგარეჯას მონასტერი) – The monastery is located to the southeast of the David Gareja Lavra, on a plateau of a desert ridge. The complex is a church built of cobblestones and cave cells of monks. The cross-domed church had an entrance from the south, which was destroyed. At one time it was well plastered and painted. Next to the church is a wide chapel with flat niches built into the wall. In one of them is a fresco icon of the Mother of God of the 10th century.
Fragments of living quarters and entrance gates have been preserved near the church, near which the reservoir pit is located. Under the church there is a stable carved into the rock and a tunnel filled with earth. Two hundred meters from the center of the monastery complex there is a three-chamber cave – a prayer niche with an altar. The Verangareja Monastery belongs to the early period of monastic construction of the David Gareja complex and, like in the Tsamebuli and Sabereebi monasteries, there are no limestone buildings in it.
Gareji Desert (Georgian: გარეჯის უდაბნო), Gardabani Municipality (Georgian: გარდაბნის მუნიციპალიტეტი)
