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No one knows how the world’s most remote church was built atop this 130-foot stone pillar

The mysterious structure is viewed in local legend as a “pillar of life” and a “symbol of the true cross”

Newsroom January 1 09:30

Sitting atop a 130-foot stone pillar is the most remote and possibly the highest church in the world.

For years mystery has surrounded the Katshki Pillar in Georgia as it remains unknown how the church got on top of the monolith limestone structure or who first built it.

The mysterious structure is viewed in local legend as a “pillar of life” and a “symbol of the true cross” – upon which Jesus was crucified in the Bible.

Much like Stonehenge or the Pyramids, historians are still probing exactly how the structures was built atop the towering pillar.

Not much is known about the sacred church except that it was abandoned until a mountaineer and his team climbed the 130ft natural structure in 1944.

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During those centuries the religious practice of Asceticism was practiced and saw monks and priests abstain from pleasures in the pursuit of spiritual goals.

But more recent studies have dated the church back to the ninth or tenth century.

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