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House 1658 y․

NKR / Karvajar / Tzar

Description
1658 y․

Of exceptional interest was the house with a hipped roof (hazarashen) built by some Avanes in 1658. Four of its columns were built of stone, instead of commonly used timber.

Building inscriptions of the church, engraved on the base of the pillar, and on the arch, supported by the capitol was first published by Bakhish Bek, the landlord of the village Metz Shen of Jraberd district ("Nor Dar" daily, 1890, N 158, p. 3-4). "Corpus" represents its copy as the first publication. Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 59.

19 c․

In the XIX cent, the population of Jraberd still believed that this was a “royal palace”.

"Nor Dar" daily, 1890, N 158, p. 3-4; Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 59.

As soon as Tzar was the princely headquarters of the province, there certainly, should have been palaces, or aparanks, houses of late medieval meliks. The house with hipped roof (hazarashen) might, perhaps, be a melik’s residential. Due to severe climatic conditions of the region, it lacked architectural details characteristic of other princely houses (vault, second floor, wooden balconies, etc.). It is quite modest, the vault is replaced by traditional hipped roof (hazarashen), common for this region, but it is much larger than other houses and wooden columns are substituted by stone ones.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 60.

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