Samghebro St.

The two-story old Georgian brick building with a cubic volume, located at 21, Samghebro St., dates back to the middle of the 19th century and offers one of the interesting examples of Tbilisi houses with a balcony. The main artistic-architectural motif of the residential house is the hanging balcony with wooden banisters, which faces Samghebro Street. The first floor of the brick house opened with flat-headed arched openings deserves attention, which probably had a commercial function since ancient times and was a trading space. Such wooden balconies or glass-fronted houses of Abanotubani are a kind of visiting card of Tbilisi. This row of houses is well perceived from the left bank of Mtkvari and the Metekhi plateau. The whole street seems to be combined with the construction of the base of Narikala Castle. Samghebro Street is one of the oldest streets of Tbilisi, which is marked on the city plan of 1876. At the beginning of the 19th century, in 1808, due to the fire that occurred on Sion Street and the surrounding lanes, dyeing workshops were moved here from the ancient dyeing row — Lilakhana (now Anton Kathalikos Street). The new station was convenient because of its proximity to the sulfur baths. A natural warm spring flowed into the river. In Dabakhana (Tsavkisistskali), where dyers washed fabrics. Samghebro Street was named Samghebro Street in the 1870s.