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Cathedral 1211 y․

NKR / Karvajar / Dadivank

Location

It is situated 1-2 m. south of the Little Domed Church.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, pp. 81-82.

Description
1211 y․

This structure is named “Temple” after its own building inscription of 1211. It is a four columns structure with a “false dome”, almost square (l0.00 x 1.10 m) in the plan. The width of the walls reaches 1 m; the height is 11 m.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 81.

The architectural description of the Temple is made by M. Hasratian. We have only to indicate that the location of the “Temple” is not parallel or symmetric in respect of any other structure in the complex, as represented in the published and republished cross-sections and plans.

Murad Hasratian, The Artsakh School of Armenian Architecture, Yerevan, 1992, p. 55; Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 82.

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Construction 1211 y․

The building inscription of the Temple was engraved on the finely processed stone fastened into the southern facade of the Temple.
“YEAR 1211. I, GRIGORIS, THE SON OF HASSAN BUILT THIS TEMPLE FOR THE REMEMBRANCE OF MY SOUL. REMEMBER MY PRAYERS”.

Published in: "Corpus", Issue 5, compiled by S. Barkhudarian, Yerevan, 1982, p. 212; Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 110. Note: the inscription was first published by M. Ter-Movsissian, then republished in Corpus with distorted paleography.

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