The Skhalta Cathedral is a Georgian Orthodox monastery and cathedral church in Adjara, dating from the mid-13th century. It has a large hall church design, with fragments of the 14th or 15th century Paleologian-style wall painting. Skhalta is the only medieval church in Adjara that survived both the Ottoman and Soviet periods and became functional again in 1990. It serves as a seat of the Georgian Orthodox bishop of Skhalta nowadays.
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