St. Tovma Church :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

St. Tovma Church

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Getabek / Novo-Saratovka

Location

The village site retained “...a spacious cemetery and two semi-ruined churches, one larger and the other smaller.”

Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, p. 311.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 270.

Historical Introduction

These sanctuaries are, indeed, Sourb Astvatzatzin (recorded as early as 1652) and St. Thomas referred to in the aforementioned colophon.