Talk:Bagrati Cathedral

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Sources that mention to the rebuilding

World Heritage Committee, 32nd session, 2008
Item 7 of the Provisional Agenda
Joint UNESCO ICOMOS Expert Mission Report
Historical Monuments of Mtskheta and Bagrati Cathedral and Gelati Monastery (Georgia)

Available at whc.unesco.org/document/100780. Here is an abstract of the report's contents related to the Bagrati cathedral.

In October 2002 the Georgian Church was given ownership of all ecclesiastical buildings within Georgia, including ruins. However, the State retained authority for their cultural management, with approval by both parties required for all interventions.

In 2005, after a joint UNESCO-ICOMOS reactive monitoring mission to the cathedral in 2003, the 29th session of the World Heritage Committee stated that in order to maintain its value and authenticity as an historic monument it would be more appropriate to retain the cathedral as a ruin. The World Heritage Committee identified the reconstruction project for Bagrati Cathedral as a "main threat" to the monument, and strongly urged that no construction work should commence before the committee had considered the project. It also criticized the lack of any conservation or consolidation works at the cathedral for a decade. However, at the 31st session of the World Heritage Committee in 2007 the reconstruction project was said to be "no longer being considered" by Georgia.

In January 2008 the President of Georgia and the Georgian Orthodox Church announced a new reconstruction project that was intended to rebuild the cathedral and return it to religious use.

In June 2008 a joint UNESCO World Heritage Centre / ICOMOS team was sent on a reactive monitoring mission to Mtskheta to review the state of conservation at the Bagrati Cathedral and other monuments. In the resulting report, UNESCO warned the Georgian authorities that the reconstruction of historic buildings is justifiable only in exceptional circumstances and requested detailed documentation so that the reconstruction project could be reviewed by the World Heritage Committee. The report asked the Georgian authorities for assurance that no reconstruction work would commence until Georgia had provided complete and detailed documentation concerning the project for review by the World Heritage Committee at its 33rd session in 2009. It also warned Georgia that it risked having the Historic Monuments of Mtskheta being added to the List of World Heritage in Danger unless progress was made. The report again expressed concerns about the lack of conservation of the cathedral, in particular regarding the structural stability of the walls, and recommended that the authorities immediately start preventative conservation work and not wait until a decision regarding the reconstruction project is made. It also criticized the lack of any management plan for the cathedral and asked that one be urgently prepared. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 23:08, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

Not a WH site anymore?

After reading the news report Gelati Monastery, Georgia, removed from UNESCO’s List of World Heritage in Danger and seeing the monument entry at the site [1], I believe that Bagrati Cathedral was removed from the heritage site in 2017 ("The new boundaries exclude Bagrati Cathedral" as is mentioned in the news report). --C messier (talk) 13:32, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

That's right, the new offical name for the WH site is "Gelati Monastery" and, as Bagrati is out, it has been taken out of the "in Danger" list. Here's the link to the note from UNESCO's site: http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1692/. -- — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.33.13.59 (talk) 18:41, 13 July 2017 (UTC)