Church :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Church

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Getabek / Daya-Gharabulagh

Historical Introduction
19 y․

Description

The church was distinguished for its awesome dimensions: “...This bridge is adjoined by quite a large church resting on six pillars. One of its walls has collapsed together with most part of its roof, but the font and the rest of the monument are preserved.”

Smbat M. Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Getabek. In: “Nor-Dar,” 1893, No. 36, p. 3; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 241.

M. Barkhutariants, who travelled in Tandzut in the same years, provides more details about it: “The village site and its cemetery are quite large, to say nothing of the local church (it is 27 metres long and 15 metres 60 centimetres wide), whose magnificence enchants visitors. Resting on six columns, it has a bema, two vestries, two fine niches as well as two entrances opening in the south and north. At present its main apse, the arch of the left choir and some part of its north-western corner lie in dilapidation. The church is bare of inscriptions.”