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Church 17 c․

NKR / Karvajar / Yeritsushen

Location

It stands at the upper end of Yeritsushen, on the right bank of a stream taking source in Lake Gortagarak.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 37.

Architectural Description

It represents a single nave basilica (external dimensions 14.2 x 7.6 m) which is partially destroyed. The vault of that church covered by a gable roof was supported from the inside by span arches based on two pairs of pilasters. There were sacristies by both sides of the altar apse. The only entrance was made in the southern wall. With the exception of the span arches and pilasters, which were made of hewed stone, other parts of the church were built of coarse stone. The walls were totally plastered inside but the plastering had now mostly decayed. There were three khachkars fastened into the interior walls. Two of them were large, finely carved and executed in the similar style as if by one and the same artisan. These two crosses were fastened into the northern and southern walls of the church, at the entrance to the sacristies. The khachkar in the northern wall and another cross nearby the pilasters were inscribed, and fortunately, even dated.

I learnt about this church from the mathematician Volodya Harutyunian, who had been in the site in 1986. In 1987 he accompanied me there. Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, pp. 37-38.

Description
17 c․

The church was built in the XVII cent. That is to say the Armenians lived in Yeritsushen at least from the XII and to the middle of the XVIII cent.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 39.

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Author Samvel Karapetyan
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