| Lekarti Monastery of Saint Nino ლექეთის წმინდა ნინოს ტაძარი | |
| Map Type: | Azerbaijan |
| Map Size: | 275 |
| Location: | Lekit, Qakh District, Azerbaijan |
| Coordinates: | 41.4933°N 46.8564°W |
| Religious Affiliation: | Georgian Orthodox Church |
| Functional Status: | Not functioning |
The Lekarti church of St Nino (Georgian: ლექეთის წმინდა ნინოს ტაძარი; Azerbaijani: Ləkit məbədi) is a Georgian Orthodox Church located 2 km north-east of the village of Lekit of Qakh District, northwestern Azerbaijan, on the border with Georgia. The village's oldest name "Lekarti" (Georgian: ლექართი) is of Georgian origins and means "the place of Georgians". Among the Dagestani Lezgins the village is also known as "Georgians' village".[1] [2] In written historic courses which have been saved up to the present, the village has been mentioned for the first time in a Georgian Gospel's Anderdzi (postscript), written in 1300-1310, during the reign of king George V the Brilliant of Georgia. It is said that catholicos of Georgia Ekvtime III visited Lekarti Saint Nino church, then part of the Kak-Eliseni district of the Kakheti province of Kingdom of Georgia.[3]