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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[@carlobragagnolo8640]

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.

[@dw4867]

😂😂 It shouldn't have taken me as long as it did to find this comment

[@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

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

[@5h4d_9]

Look Who's here

[@nickeman132]

Well I did one time, but I ended up stuck in the nether :/

[@NovaSniper12]

Yea but only when I’m bored

[@italianfool8860]

Hey I know you I saw you when i was watching a video!

[@Jesus-uy9tr]

You’re everywhere. I reported your account lots of times

[@amberdawn3084]

when I want my Minecraft base to be mob-proof

[@noodles5438]

Nah, it just a normal village.

[@danesp4433]

@@noodles5438 yeah they even spawn underground too🙃

[@ograkthemonkeyhunter2743]

Spiders be like:

[@daniellecedeno1322]

Amber Dawn yes

[@Jesus-uy9tr]

Phantom mob has appeared

[@RishabhSharma-hh8di]

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

[@shivankitss8396]

You went ?

[@frenlyfren]

You can't. Only the priests are allowed to go up there.

[@Михаил-ч3н5ц]

@@frenlyfren not only priests but monks, not all monks are priests and some priests are monks.

[@sube1988]

i love my country god bless GEORGIA♥️🇬🇪

[@MisterDaviso452]

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!

[@theconsul6615]

When your friend jokingly lits 48 TNTs in your minecraft village

[@iamme1361]

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

[@mariagraziazollo9180]

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

[@dakshkashyap]

views from the drone are breathtaking 😍

[@ΧαρίλαοςΠαπαναστασίου]

In Greece there are like 10 monasteries like that at Meteora

[@BHuang92]

I feel like most orthodox churches in the east like to find the highest place to worship.

[@mateuslira3411]

The best Linkin Park album, by the way

[@kahinaoftheelements4845]

@@BHuang92 the closest to god the better

[@mrkanenas]

@@BHuang92 Greece is not East

[@creditcard3466]

@@kahinaoftheelements4845 You mean, dying??

[@justamcperedstoner5986]

Earthquake: *let me introduce myself*

[@sourcherrypie]

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

[@FernandaGouveia]

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

[@yabiberekket5847]

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.

[@ivannovotny4552]

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

[@becomingdazhuniquefrance2615]

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

[@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

[@subhash2428]

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

[@Kozli1985]

Every introverts dream

[@ronan4442]

I always wonder how long it takes them to get all the materials up there.Baffling

[@somemedic8482]

Yeah that's the first thing I was thinking about when I saw it.

[@BothHands1]

i think the hardest part was carving the stairs into the actual rock face. compared to that, carrying the slabs of rock up the stairs is not much of a big deal lol

[@BothHands1]

like at 0:32 you can see the stairs up there are carved into quite level stairs, directly into the cliff. i guess the pagans who first build it probably used the stone they cut out of the rock face to build their temple. the new one that was rebuilt in the 40's probably used a pully system, which i think was briefly shown on the side of the cliff at one point, but i don't remember where

[@l0remipsum991]

pulleys

[@შარო]

they use some kind of elevator pullimg the rope pulls them up

[@შარო]

💕🇬🇪 I'm proud

[@tamaaana2456]

Wow..the plumbing work would be next level

[@erialhm9248]

This sounds like "Sanctuary in the Sky" yugioh card irl version

[@ananonachkebia4530]

It is fascinating and unbelievable!

[@siyacer]

Imagine taking one wrong step near the edge

[@tehbers7898]

No one : Minecraft villages :

[@skrystelle]

I knew there would be a comment like this

[@tehbers7898]

@@skrystelle yh same here, i tried looking but i couldnt find any so i just did it myself 😅

[@TheAlchemistEmpire]

Crazy how nature does that

[@Bayan1905]

Awesome place to ride out the apocalypse.

[@jeninarvaezmelo656]

Le gasp. The Last Airbender would make a nice home there. ATLA anyone?

[@meatwadmeatwad833]

Me when I see weird generation in a extreme hills biome.

[@mollywithak1697]

Stylites are the coolest monastics

[@trideset3975]

Magnificent!

[@antoniobinoy4161]

I thought it was Georgia state the whole time

[@zevvez]

Antonio Binoy same lmao

[@theolewell7535]

amazing

[@cocomilk6684]

Garreg Mach Monastery

[@backward9]

That's me in minecraft building my house on a floating island

[@datokhatchapuridze3302]

Than all of you have to go to #VisitGeorgia or #spend4seasoningeorgia 😉

[@paladinbob1236]

there are some amazing and uptapped sights in eastern europe that are just being noticed...this seems to be one of them :D

[@gl2usplant4]

When you enable extreme hills biome in Minecraft

[@bazurkis]

Friend:Where do you live? Me:The hills Friend:Your rich? Me:No an actual hill

[@miaahnri]

Early hope u had a merry xmas

[@nooneimportant834]

Imagine what it must be like to get someone baptized there lol

[@jonathannagel7427]

So glad climbers found it, not satellites

[@maestrolodahl8681]

plz make a bigger docu

[@moriyanouen]

Who is been fan before2019 ⬇️⬇️⬇️😄😁

[@foxcub2yo108]

All hail invisible sky daddy

[@jeliceinchains]

i wish you show more of monestary daily service and Sunday service/liturgy, monks, chants and more about monastery not only history, place and drone view..

[@erikjohansson2703]

0:07 metric please!

[@kostaslavdas7120]

Have you seen Meteora in Greece?

[@DK19998]

She sounded like a text to speech at first

[@GD15555]

Imagine calling a plumber there

[@johngarcia2891]

I could live there.

[@guy1235575]

I’d like to visit 😊

[@amarns2984]

Pagan God of fertility is Lord Shiva from India.

[@duskom3277]

Предивно! У славу Господа...

[@fjnfffunnn4572]

💗💗💗🇬🇪

[@italianfool8860]

When a villager lives on a cliff

[@ceohadenough894]

We have this in Greece

[@Righteous1ist]

Cool

[@hfredydl]

Good place to be at when the zombie apocalypse hits 🧟‍♂️

[@natashaalbertson9778]

Wow

[@daddythanos494]

When u really want to survive the tsunami

[@lisam8105]

So the church paid for the buildings that aren't used on the top and continues to pay to maintain the site??? Surely there are some humans who could benefit from the funds instead.

[@juliusbakker790]

Lisa M. I think the monks how live there maintain it. So they don’t really pay. Wat they do neet in terms of money they probably get from tourists donations.

[@Phlegethon]

Must be hard to get food up there

[@daveotuwa5596]

NOT IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH

[@feilefa]

I wish i knew the background song

[@ktroeyeng]

Have you ever heard of “Meteora” in Greece ? Check it out. It’s like what we saw in this video but multiplied by 10(at least). Seeing the thumbnail, I thought we were going to watch a video about Greece.

[@joshcanhearyou]

Damn they’ve got an aussie narrator now

[@Silverwarhawk]

JoshBC2304 that’s not Aussie that’s British dude

[@millenialfragrancenerd94]

#1 Hiding Spot during a zombie apocalypse

[@ianis7133]

Check Meteora Greece

[@di0brando1]

Well that's my country and ive never been there just read about the monastery

[@TroodoN0]

no swimming pool?

[@kennethchau7829]

I want to climb up

[@xaviertyack5640]

It took me a bit too long to realize you ment a different georgia

[@savedemperor8024]

having a house on such a rock would be awesome

[@mjbriones1310]

That one Minecraft village house

[@rexavgvsta5671]

Orthodoxy is not Christianity it's a life style.

[@user-gi2mn5yf5j]

I bet the snack bar prices at the top are sky high.

[@importantname]

so really just two small buildings on a hill

[@duo496]

What a great sniper tower

[@austinowen2431]

They shot a James Bond movie here - a spy who loved me i think

[@blankeyed67]

I bet a lot of airbenders live there.

[@Wynorra]

What minecraft amplified seed is that

[@teatea4496]

At least they'll be safe from the zombies

[@giorgoskatsarakis9652]

Omfg there is a whole complex of those in greece meteora

[@ganeshpingle1394]

So basically sky is 130 feet above the ground

[@oot-oot4943]

Cliff Empire for real?

[@jupitired777]

wow

[@leosedf]

ΜΕΤΕΟRA.!

[@SKITYSTUDIOS]

Minecraft villagers be like

[@matinn1153]

What if you sleep walk

[@alexeyrodokanakis8827]

What about Meteora?

[@PootisArchiveshh]

let us have our moment of fame dangit

[@EdgarTMFG]

When a minecraft villager house used to load near a mountain and it would just be a piller of cobblestone.

[@mrltphotography6529]

Minecraft villages:

[@steveevagg2356]

We have and in Greece 😑

[@anthonystefanos654]

Bruh this is a Minecraft village wdym

[@maecarelle]

what if an earthquake comes?

[@LillianMix]

Minecraft villages in real life be like: