Fragment :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Fragment 1895 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Gandzak / Gandzak

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1895 y․

5 lines in the Armenian original carved on a broken stone lying near an adjacent newly-built chapel:
This gift was donated to Sourb Astvatzatzin Church by Alexandre, Mariam and Nikalai Ghukassiants in the year 1895.
Note: Evidently, Nikoghayos Ghukassiants, who had repaired Gandzak’s St. Gevorg Church and the pilgrimage site of Norashen’s St. Sargis, did not spare means to carry out similar work in Cholak as well (National Archives of Armenia, fund 57, list 2, file 1582, p. 2). He is also known to have sponsored the renovation of a church in Murut Village of Khanlar District.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 57.

Type Photo
View Exterior
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Colour Negative
Date 1980 — 1982 yy․

Inscription found in the site of Cholak's Sourb Astvatzatzin