ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Varazgom 7 Monuments

NKR (Country) / Kashatagh (District) / Varazgom (Village)

Description

This village is built on an oblong plateau resembling a cape in the canyon between Merik and Ghooshchi, 2 km away of the left bank of the Aghavnaget. Its church is strongly endangered, but still standing. It is a composition of unique architectural value, cross-planned, with two altar apses and a dome. The name of the village as marked in the above mentioned map of 1904 is Varazgun. It seems, the original form had to be Varazgom.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 133.

Besides the ruins of old houses amid the village, there are cave dwellings, with entrances of ordinary door size and medium interior areas: 3x4 m (height -2,00 - 2,2 m).

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 133.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Varazgun
Varazghan