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Tchgnavor Chapel

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Getabek / Ghalakend

Description

A little west (below) of St. Hovhannes Church stands a small chapel built of undressed stone and known by the names of Jgnavor (the Armenian equivalent for ‘Hermit’) and Jgnavori Gerezman (the Armenian equivalent for ‘Hermit’s Grave’) among the Armenians of the neighbourhood. It retains a grave-stone without an epitaph.

Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, p. 308.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 276.

19 c․

In the late 19th century, 2 inscribed cross-stones, located west of the main church of the city, were removed and placed below the railway line.