St. George of Ptuk Pilgrimage Site :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

St. George of Ptuk Pilgrimage Site

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Touz / Aghekhush

Location

A pilgrimage site called Ptkesaberk or Ptki Sourb Gevorg (‘St. Gevorg of the top’: ‘ptuk’ is the equivalent for ‘top’ in Karabakh dialect) is located at the top of a mountain (1,403 metres) of the same name (‘Pirinyal’ in Turkish), 2 kilometres north-west of the village.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 335.

Historical Introduction
19 c․

It used to comprise a chapel, but in the late 19th century, only a cross-stone could be seen in its site: “...a khachkar standing at the pointed peak of a mountain and serving as a pilgrimage site. In times bygone, a chapel was situated there, but later it was demolished.”

Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, p. 294; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 335.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Ptkesaberk