Sourb Targmanchats Church :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Sourb Targmanchats Church

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Verin Karhat

Location

The newly-arrived Armenian inhabitants of Verin Karhat embarked upon the construction of a church without any delay. It was erected at the edge of a group of hills extending like a cape at the eastern extremity of the village, on the brink of a gorge lying on the left bank of the river Artinajur.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, pp. 217-218.

Historical Introduction
1903 y․

The sanctuary was dedicated to the Holy Translators, an archive document of 1903 stating the following with this connection, “It is already eight to nine years since half of our people resettled in the village site of Verin Karhat, where at present a village extends with a newly-built church named Sourb Targmanchats…”

National Archives of Armenia, fund 53, list 1, file 3368, p. 18.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 218.

Repairs
1914 y․

In 1914 the spiritual authorities met the villagers’ request to contribute to the renovation of the church roof, which was to be tiled at 300 rubles.

National Archives of Armenia, fund 53, list 1, file 3460, pp. 1-3.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 275.

Historical Introduction
1920 y․

In the 1920s, however, the monument was totally demolished.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 218.

Priests
1898 y․

In 1898 Anton Barseghian Ter-Antoniants was ordained priest in Verin Karhat.