Museum of Religion

Museum

The Batumi Museum of Religion was opened in 2004. The exposition presented here introduces the visitor to the main confessions prevalent in Batumi and throughout Georgia, the documented history of friendly coexistence of people of different faiths and religious tolerance.
There is no record of religious persecution by the Georgian state or Georgians in general in history. Even in the Middle Ages, when religious wars and persecution of people were widespread, adherents of different religions were present at the Georgian royal court, and the country's judicial and tax systems did not discriminate against people based on their faith.
In the 1980s, along with the growth of the economy, the population of Batumi increased sharply. If until now, mainly temporary workers lived here, after the arrival of the railway and the construction of oil terminals, many people found stable work and settled in the city with their families. Batumi became the hometown of people of more than 80 different nationalities, and here, large and small confessions of the world found themselves in close proximity to each other. The Batumi tolerance of the 19th and 20th centuries is a kind of continuation of medieval Georgian tolerance, where followers of different religions lived not only next to each other, in the same yard, but even in the same family.
The Batumi Museum of Religion stores religious books of various denominations of Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism, ritual objects and clothing, and unique photographs depicting the past.
Here you will see Orthodox icons made in various original techniques, including bas-reliefs, tapestries, enamel, as well as the Ascension scene on a sink. There are also exhibits related to Batumi of the Roman Catholic and Armenian Apostolic Churches, as well as the Torah of the Batumi Jews. Among the exhibits characteristic of Islam, a manuscript Quran dating back to the 16th century and textbooks with explanations of the Quran stand out.
Batumi is still an exemplary city of religious tolerance, which is why it became necessary to establish a museum of religion here, after all, every Batumi resident is proud of the religious diversity of their city and tries to share Batumi's tolerant past and present with all visitors.

Entry fee:

adult 4 GEL;

students 3 GEL;

School students 2 GEL.

₾4

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