In the Cathedral in the village of Kumurdo, where restoration works are uderway Mother Nino offered prayers. Prior to that, the Armenians living in the village of Cumurdo prayed in the Cathedral, who explained that this is a tradition and every week Orthodoxand Gregorian parishes pray in this temple . Is the temple Georgian? - The opinions in the villages differ. Some say it does not matter.

"Whoever wants to enter and pray, can do it. We wanted to erect the cross on the graves of our ancestors and the police did not allow us to do so, "- said local resident Sandro Avetisijan..

Part of the inhabitants of the village think that the church is not Georgian. They say that a thousand years ago nobody knows whose this land was.

"Who do you say this is a Georgian cathedral? This is neither Armenian nor Georgian. The Greeks or the Assyrians lived here. Thousands of years ago we did not know whose land was this. It is not a Georgian church, "-said Jorge Sahariyan.
There was physical confrontation between locals and police yesterday. The inhabitants demanded entry into the temple and setting up a cross where the ancestors`s were located. The locals were not allowed to do so by the security police which was followed by a clash.