ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Turk-Sarov Monuments

NKR (Country) / Tartar (District) / Turk-Sarov (Village)

Description
1858 y․

The third village with the same component Sarov is also situated in the Tartar District. Contrary to the Begum-Sarov and Maralian-Sarov it was called Turk-Sarov. Of exceptional interest is the petition of 1858 forwarded by the resident of this village Aziz Hussein Oghli to the Armenian spiritual authorities. The latter expressed the desire to be baptized under the rite of the Armenian Apostolic church motivating by the fact, that being under the Khan’s rule in the middle of the XVIII century his ancestors were forcibly converted to Islamic faith, and now he was pleading to permit him change the confession and accept Christianity in accordance with the rites of Armenian Apostolic church.
This fact enables us to presume that the original population of the Turk-Sarov village, contrary to the residents of Maralian Sarov, who preserved their faith in spite of losing the language, had lost both - their mother tongue and the faith and turned to Muslims.