The Temi Community House is the former home of a doctor and professor of medicine, George Stanislaus Stein.
Dr. Stein was born in Russia on 26 October 1887 and studied at the Faculty of Medicine from 1905 to 1911. He then practiced medicine in Moscow for two years and in 1913, with the help of a friend of his from Georgia, General Georgiashvili, built what is now our house in Gremi, Kachetien.
During World War I, Dr. Stein was called to the front to serve in army hospitals. He was discharged some years later for health reasons and subsequently he returned to his home in Georgia, where he continued to work as a local doctor. He was undaunted when his practice was put under state control after the Russian occupation of Georgia in 1921.
Twenty years later, Dr. Stein and his family were deported to Kazakstan where he spent 14 years in exile. In 1955, he repatriated to his adopted land, Georgia, and remained there until his passing in 1973. Even today Kakheti villagers recall Dr. Stein as a selfless and charitable person who was highly respected for his precise diagnoses and successful cures. At Temi we strive to carry on the tradition of his good work.