Armenian School :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Armenian School

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Khanlar / Voskanapat

Historical Introduction

The year of the foundation of the local Armenian parish school remains unknown.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 441.

1884 y․

The institution provided a one-year course of instruction for males in 1884.

Khudoyan, S. The East Armenian Schools between 1830 and 1920. Yerevan, 1987, p. 480.
The author mistakenly took Voskanapat and Zurnabad for two different villages. Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 441.

1885 y․

It remained closed on the order of the authorities throughout 1885 (for the second time it closed in 1896). The existing archive documents mention it only in 1891 as a one-year male school of 60 pupils.

Khudoyan, S. The East Armenian Schools between 1830 and 1920. Yerevan, 1987, p. 477.
“Nor-Dar,” 1891, No. 47, p. 2.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 441.