Miji Vank Church :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Miji Vank Church 16 — 17 cc․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Khanlar / Martunashen

Architectural Description

The semi-ruined church of the monastery represents a structure of semi-dressed and undressed stone. It used to have a semi-circular vault lying below a gable roof and resting on a pair of pilasters: at present the vault is totally destroyed. The part of the north-eastern corner of the sanctuary fell apart and collapsed into the gorge. The monument, whose only entrance opens from its southern facade, is illuminated through 6 windows widening inside: 3 of them open from the eastern, and the rest from the other facades, one from each.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 412.

Historical Introduction
16 — 17 yy․

The composition and building peculiarities of the church trace it back to the 16th to 17th centuries.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 412.

The sanctuary and a cemetery extending in its yard have preserved a number of displaced khachkars and tombstones, part of them broken to pieces and engraved with inscriptions.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 412.

Type Photo
View Partial view
Direction From the south
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative

Type Photo
View Partial view
Direction From the west
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative

Type Photo
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative

An interior view of the northern wall of the local church

Type Photo
View Partial view
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative

Its western facade

Type Measurement
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Sketch

The plan of the church Miji Vank