Timotesubani Monastery is a medieval Georgian Orthodox complex in the Borjomi Gorge. Its structures were built between the 11th and 18th centuries. The Church of the Dormition dates to the reign of Queen Tamar, who ruled from 1184 to 1213, and an inscription names the nobleman Shalva of Akhaltsikhe as a patron. The article names no architect.
The church is a domed cross-in-square building of pink stone, with three apses projecting east. Its dome rests on two freestanding pillars and on ledges of the altar. The western and southern portals are later additions.
Its frescoes were completed no later than the 1220s. In the 2000s they received emergency conservation supported by the World Monuments Fund and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
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