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Trran Yeghtsy Church

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Shamkhor / Barsum

Location

A church known as Trran Yeghtsy (i.e. ‘a church soaring aloft’) used to be located in the south of the village.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 466.

Historical Introduction
19 c․

In the late 19th century, “its only remnants comprise four walls...”

Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, p. 318.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 466.

In the 1980s, only some meagre vestiges reminded one of the existence of the sanctuary whose stones had been used in the construction of St. Grigor Lusavorich Church.