Pilgrimage route with visiting of well-known and respected temples of Abkhazia will take one day. You can travel on this route without assistance because all temples are well-known and located not far from the route.

Sukhum Cathedral
You can start your travel in the capital of Abkhazia, in Sukhum Cathedral. The temple was built in 1915 by means of Greek community and sanctified in honour of Saint Nicholas. In the middle of forties of XX century this temple became the Cathedral of Sukhum-Abkhazian Eparchy and sanctified in honour of Annunciation of the Blessed Mother of God.
By its architecture the Cathedral belongs to a cross-domical kind of temples with a Byzantine type of dome. There is a side-altar of Saint Nicholas in the temple and icon with relics of Saint Panteleimon was survived to our time. Also here was a tomb of John Zlatoust, but in 1990 it was carried to the place of his death Komany village, to the temple of his name. There are a lot of icons of Orthodox Saints in the temple – St. Simon the Zealot, Andrew Pervozvanny, St. Basilisk, and also the copy of icon of Iverskaya Mother of God, icon of St. Archangel Gabriel and St. Archangel Michael.

The temple of Elijah the Prophet
Leaving Sukhum and making your way to the east of Kodor road, after 20 minutes you can find yourself in Agudzera village of Gulripsh region. At the entry of the village is situated the temple of Elijah the Prophet, which has unusual architecture. The famous Maecenas and timber merchant Nicholas Smetskoy was the initiator of building of this temple in a modernist style. He purchased a few gales in Gulripsh region, were he established the arboretum with a rare subtropical plants and sanatoriums for consumptives. In 1908 Smetskoy using his own funds constructed the church, which was sanctified for the sake of George the Victorious.  
In Soviet times in the temple were library, courses and storage rooms. Revival of the temple was after Abkhaz-Georgian war in 1992-1993. The temple was sanctified in honour of Elijah the Prophet and more than 10 years ago here was spent first prayer service. The temple has not only ancient icons, but also a lot of icons painted by contemporary Abkhazian artists. It’s notable that in the temple of Elijah the Prophet a prayer services are in ancient Slavic and Abkhazian languages and Byzantine motets are in an ancient Slavic, Abkhazian and Greek languages.

Dranda Cathedral
The next temple in our rout is the Dranda Cathedral situated not far from Sukhum, between Small Kodor and Adzapsh rivers. It was constructed in VI-VII c. and it is the one of the first Christian temples of Kolkhida. This temple belongs to the cross-domical and tetra-column temples, which were prevailing in the all Byzantine territory that time. The temple is topped with a dome lying in a low dioctahedral drum. Walling, vault and dome were made of brick and internal space of the temple was covered by plaster and wall-paintings.
Dranda was a residence of the bishop in the middle Ages, a large demesne was in property of the temple and here were a brisk lumber and cattle trade. In Turkish dominion times the temple was destroyed and later it was repeatedly restored in a different years of XIX – XX centuries. The original aspect of the temple was vastly modified as a result of all restorations and reconstructions and all wall-paintings were vanished. In 1883 a few monks from Novy Afon established the monastery in this temple.  
Nowadays the Dranda temple is functioning and there routinely celebrates the prayer services.

Mokva Cathedral
The road to Mokva Cathedral, which is situated in the very heart of Ochamchira region in Mokva village, in a rising of the rivers of Mokva and Duab coalescence, will take about half an hour. The Cathedral of Assumption of the Mother of God, which is the ‘predecessor’ of Sophia Cathedral in Kiev, was built in X century by means of Abkhazian tsar Leon III (955-967 y.) Historical evidences tell us that in construction of Sophia in Kiev took part Greek and Abkhazian masters (“gretsi” and “obezi”).
Mokva Cathedral is the unique five-navel and cross-domical temple of Abkhazia. It was ornate on the inside and outside. The iconostasis, columns and floor were made of marble, the walling were covered with wall-paintings and stony cornices were fretted.  
Mokva Cathedral had a great amount for Abkhazians, here was a monastery and the bishop’s department, where was a place of funeral of archbishops.
In the fifties of XIX century the temple was restored, the floor was covered afresh and there was constructed a small rotunda on the dome. As a result of that ‘restoration’ was vastly suffered the outside aspect of the temple – a fretted cornices were disappeared and the tiled roof was changed by the iron one. The ashlar inside of the temple was plastered and the wall-paintings and mosaic on the altar were limed. In the latter half of the XIX century the temple was changed into the burial-vault. Here were buried the last duke of Abkhazia Michael Shervashidze (Chachba) and his son George, the poet and the public man.  
In 2002 y. the Mokva Cathedral was opened and now it is the functioning one.