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Khachkar

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Artzvashen

Description

A khachkar stands on the cross-road between Nor-Saratovka and Karmir. Removed from the site of Jukhtak Kar when it was buried under a water reservoir, it is a pilgrimage destination for the Muslim inhabitants of the adjacent villages.

The Armenian equivalent for ‘a pair of stones.’ The name derives from two big, flat stones lying on each other, one of them having a small hole reminding of a horse hoof. They were removed together with the aforementioned khachkar. Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 559.