Father Gabriel built a church in the courtyard of his house in Tbilisi's Tetritskaroy Street.

Father Gabriel built a church in the courtyard of his house in Tbilisi's Tetritskaroy Street. He built it with his own hands and finished around 1962. The icons for this church, Father Gabriel, found in city dumps, where, in those godless years, numerous shrines were dumped and thrown out with garbage. Sometimes he wandered in landfills all day. He had a small workshop where he cleaned the icons, made them frames from different materials. The walls of his church were completely covered with images. Even the photographs and images of icons from secular magazines he placed in frames.