A Monastery in the Sky

It’s easy to spot the Katskhi pillar—it reaches up into the air like a skyscraper. This natural wonder is a limestone monolith dominating the hilly landscape in a remote part of Georgia. It’s been a site of religious significance going back to Pagan times. At present, the Orthodox Georgian Church maintains a monastery at the breathtaking site.

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[carlobragagnolo]

It's amazing how the whole landscape fits with the monastery

[esaackley]

Wow, that’s so great, and I thought the Fire Lord destroyed all the Air Temples.

[mariagraziazollo]

Georgians, Corsicans, Ligurians, Basques, Occitans, Sardinians, Liburnians are brothers.
A hug ❤🇬🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
I love your beautiful mountains and your churches ❤

[Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

Y'all ever just like, you know... Build a monastery in the sky

[RishabhSharma-hhdi]

I wish everyone could get a chance to see the view from the top of such an amazing place at least once in life.

[sube]

i love my country god bless GEORGIA♥️🇬🇪

[amberdawn]

when I want my Minecraft base to be mob-proof

[MisterDaviso]

I really appreciate the variety of stories on this channel. I don’t watch everything, but seeing those I do find interesting is always a treat. Thanks GBS!

[dakshkashyap]

views from the drone are breathtaking 😍

[iamme]

When I saw the thumbnail I thought that I was going to see a video about meteora in Greece.

[theconsul]

When your friend jokingly lits 48 TNTs in your minecraft village

[ΧαρίλαοςΠαπαναστασίου]

In Greece there are like 10 monasteries like that at Meteora

[subhash]

This monastery reborn the same year i was born 😃😃 easy to remember

[sourcherrypie]

Georgian here 👋🏻
you should see our rock hewn town Uplistsikhe

[becomingdazhuniquefrance]

This is beautiful!!! They also have one in Ethiopia in a cave and the people would climb up there just for service which it’s beautiful to see

[FernandaGouveia]

Wow that place is unbelievable! And the drone footage are awesome! (:

[datagurdjieff]

Katskhi was the best climbing park in Georgia, we were building the infrastructure for over 10 years and these robbers calling themselves mongs kicked us out and destroy our routes. Bastards

[tamaaana]

Wow..the plumbing work would be next level

[ivannovotny]

Very lovely and informative. Thank you for sharing/posting.

[yabiberekket]

Hello! I really enjoyed watching this, but if you would ever want to do a second part to monasteries in the sky, I would HIGHLY recommend visiting Ethiopia which has MANY old orthodox Christian churches places within mountains in which priests and monks live among one another. It’s a very beautiful and spiritual sight.