Parish School :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Parish School 1874 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Kasum-Ismayilov / Gharadaghlu

Historical Introduction
1874 y․

One of the earliest records on the parochial school of Gharadaghlu dates back to 1874.

National Archives of Armenia, fund ä458, list 1, file 184, p. 7.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 318.

1887 y․

According to a press publication of 1887, it remained closed without any immediate prospects of future reopening: “The villagers have built a small, two-room school at their own expense in the south of the church. Unfortunately, however, at present one of its rooms serves as a barn for a certain gentleman from Gandzak. The other, where Armenian children were to learn their mother tongue, shelters some Persian Jvars. These people do not pay any rent for their stay in the building; moreover, they constantly damage it by making a fire right in the middle of the room and thus blackening both its walls and ceiling. When the issue of the reopening of Armenian schools became a subject of wide discussion everywhere, Khankend Armenians stated, “We are going to open our school, too.” So far, however, they have not taken any actions for that purpose…”
In 1913 the inhabitants of Gharadaghlu embarked upon the construction of a state Russian school.