Ghamshli Village Site :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Ghamshli Village Site

NKR / Karvajar / Barsghishen

Location

It is situated in the Lev River valley, on its right bank.

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

Description

The walls of residential houses in these villages were built of numerous khachkars, or processed stones of secondary usage, even the inscribed tympanum of the church entrance was reused. Apparently to provide the building material for their houses, the shepherds used the nearby Armenian churches and cemeteries as a quarry.