2012-2015 წლებში სოფლის ცენტრში პირველი აჭარელი მღვდელმსახურის — დეკანოზ სერაფიმეს (ბერიძე) ინიციატივით ააგეს სერაფიმ საროველის სახელობის დარბაზული ეკლესია.
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In 2012-2015, in the centre of the village, a hall church dedicated to Seraphim of Sarov was built on the initiative of the first Adjarian clergyman, Archpriest (dekanozi) Serapime (Beridze).
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- B-027 B restates
According to the Georgian Wikipedia article on ზესოფელი (Keda municipality, Adjara), a hall-church dedicated to St Seraphim of Sarov (სერაფიმ საროველი) was built in the village centre in 2012–2015 on the initiative of Archpriest სერაფიმე (ბერიძე) — born ჯემალ (ნოდარ) ბერიძე in ზესოფელი in 1938, ordained in the 1990s and described in Georgian sources as the first native Adjarian priest of the post-Soviet era; he was tonsured a monk under the name სისო in 2015 and died in 2019 as a schema-archimandrite. ბერიძე is also listed among the village's common surnames (Sh. Abashidze, „დედაო — ჩემო ქედაო", Batumi, 2017). The church's construction dates and his role are stated by Wikipedia without a footnote and have not been independently confirmed.
Beridze, a history of the surname · Passage A.190 · beridze.info/en/passages/a-190 · Source: https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/ზესოფელი (accessed 2026-09-16)a-190 · last updated 2026-09-16 · send a correction