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Nahatak Pilgrimage Site

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Shamkhor / Garnaker

Location

A pilgrimage destination called Nahatak (the Armenian equivalent for ‘Martyr’) is located on the right bank of the river Shamkor, in the north-east of Garnaker.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 492.

Historical Introduction
19 c․

In the late 19th century, it comprised “...a chapel of a wooden roof which retains the remains of an unknown martyr.” By 1984, however, only some meagre vestiges had survived as silent reminders of the once standing sanctuary.