Church :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Church 10 — 11 cc․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Touz / Aghaj-Ghala

Architectural Description

The church (exterior dimensions: 9.3 x 7 metres) represents a uni-nave vaulted basilica built of undressed and roughly-finished stone and mortar, with its cornerstones mostly finely-dressed. Its gable roof is inwardly supported by a vault-bearing arch resting on a pair of pilasters. On the right and left of the main apse are located two vaulted, double-storey vestries, each of them having a semi-circular apse. The walls of the main apse and vestries have small niches. Light penetrates into the building through the windows opening into the 4 facades and widening inside. The entrance to the church opens in the west. Both its outer and inner walls bear some fragments decorated with crosses, and simple, old-styled cross-stones bare of any inscriptions.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, pp. 525-526.

Historical Introduction
10 — 11 cc․

The architectural peculiarities of the church trace it back to the 10th to 11th centuries.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 526.

1980 y․

During our visit to the monument in the 1980s, we found the middle parts of its walls and some sections of the windows (particularly, the southern ones) lying in ruins.