Lomisa Church stands on Mount Lomisa, also called Alevi, in the Dusheti Municipality of eastern Georgia, at about 7,200 feet (2,200 meters) on a ridge between the Ksani and Aragvi valleys. It is dedicated to Saint George. The original building dates to the ninth or tenth century, and two annexes were added later. It is a simple hall church of undressed stone, 14.5 by 7.8 meters.
A vaulted ceiling rests on arches supported by pilasters, and the longitudinal walls have niches. A door of oak with iron cladding, from the sixteenth or seventeenth century, survives. To the south are the ruins of a former two-storey bell tower.
Georgian royalty and nobility were its patrons, and the church appears to have owned serfs. King George V stopped there to pray in the 1320s. It is listed among Georgia's Immovable Cultural Monuments of National Significance.
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