Keshishkyand Village Site :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Keshishkyand Village Site

NKR / Karvajar / Takyaghaya

Location

An old village on the bank of the Lev is called Keshishkend.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 29.

Description
1885 y․

Prof. Haykuni (Eghishe senior priest Gueghamian) described this settlement for the first time in a report published in 1885. He wrote: “We saw the historical ruins of the village called Keshishkand, which (they said) had many inscriptions...”

"Meghu Hayastani", 1885, N 80, p. 3 (in Arm.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 29.

The second author, M. Ter-Movsissian provided somewhat occasional information about the village seen from the distance: “Keshishkand - a ruined village known by this name was also situated at the bank of the Levonaget, in the point of its confluence with one of the foamy tributaries, streaming down through the steep gorge. There were only three Ayrum households and an old church - absolutely unde-stroyed. I watched the structure from the distance. Because of the falling dusk I couldn’t stop and read the inscription, moreover that being tired of intolerable roads, an insignificant building made of coarse stone did not particularly attract me. It was a simple village church, quite like those, which I saw later in other places”.

"Anthropological Review", 1913, vol. XXV, N 2, p. 76.
See also Mesrop Magistros Archbishop Ter-Movsisian, Churches and Religious Structures of Three Large Armenia Monasteries: Tatev, Haghartzin and Dadi Vank…, Jerusalem, 1970, p. 93-94.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 29.

It is difficult to insist, though taking into account the description of the place, it seems that the author was speaking about the village of Takyaghaya and its church.