Talk:Gelati Monastery

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Coordinates of the monastery
Coordinates in the UNESCO site N42 15 44 E42 42 59 (http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/710) and the old coordinates in this article (42 15 42 N 42 43 01 E) obviously do not point to the monastery. UNESCO evaluation report (http://whc.unesco.org/archive/advisory_body_evaluation/710.pdf) says the monastery is 12 km from Kutaisi (page 2 of the pdf). Some travellers say in their blogs that the distance is under 10 km. I have not found maps or satellite images accurate enough nor aerial photos wide enough to locate the monastery accurately. MapGuest (new coordinates, zoom in to see place name Gelati) and perhaps a map (very low quality scan) in the evaluation report (page 5 of the pdf) show Gelati inside the same river bend (but not in the same location exactly). New coordinates are approximate (accuracy about 1 km). This place is about 6 km NE from Kutaisi, so there is still a slight discrepancy considering the distance. --AB-fi 13:57, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

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Overlooked ?
"The monastery is covered in arches that stretch over mountains." What can this mean apart from the literal meaning, which would be a Wonder of the World. And I'm not sure about archways in the belltower, which is unusual but realistic.

"The monastery still oversees Georgia and is a functioning church." implies some kind of supervisory function in the State Church, yet further down we read "The monastery was built in to overlook Georgia, and the stone walls were constructed to reflect sunlight." which I take to mean it was built on a tall hill to look impressive. The whole article reads like a machine translation and I've made a few obvious tweaks but have left the overlook/oversee ambiguity to someone who knows what they're doing. Doug butler (talk) 07:06, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

Plagiarism ?
The whole first paragraph of the overview section seems to be simply copied, and poorly reworded, from the 6th source cited.