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Church 13 — 14 cc․

NKR / Karvajar / Barsghishen

Location

The walls of a little beautiful church between Barsghishen and Ghamishli, closer to the latter (only 0.6 km to the east) are still preserved though the upper part of the walls alongside with the vault have totally collapsed.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 40.

Architectural Description

The only entrance is in the western wall. The church was built of coarse stone and mortar. Votive crosses covered many of the facing stones. Two of them had brief inscriptions, one on the western, and the other on the southern facades. The interior of the church was plastered. The altar was quadrangular. Its external dimensions were 5.68x4.22 cm.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, pp. 40-41.

Foundation
13 — 14 cc․

Based on their compositional and stylistic peculiarities they may be dated by the XIII-XIV cent.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 41.

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration

The contents of the first is:
“LORD, HAVE MERCY UPON GAGIK”.

Published in: Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 41.

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration

“GRIGOR... LORD, HAVE MERCY”.