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Khachkar 1639 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Khanlar / Getashen

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1639 y․

3 lines in the Armenian original engraved on the cornice and lower part of a khachkar set in the western facade of the church:
May this Holy Cross protect Mkhitar, his spouse and Hovhannes’ mother Huratskhan. In the year 1639.
The Armenian original published in: Corpus Inscriptionum Armenicarum, part 5. Compiled by Barkhudarian, S. Yerevan, 1982, p. 246.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 385.

Type Photo
View Exterior
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1980 — 1982 yy․

Type Photo
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Colour Negative
Date 1989 y․

A cross-stone of 1639 set in its western facade