Asli Kyarami Kilisa House :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Asli Kyarami Kilisa House

NKR / Kashatagh / Yeznagomer

Location

The oldest, northern part of the village contains a residential house of two rooms, which might belong to the former landlord or the village priest.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 125.

Architectural Description
17 — 18 cc․

Exterior dimensions of the house are 9.80 x 8.50 m. The walls built of coarse stone and mortar are 1 m wide, the vault is semicircular. The interior is plastered, walls are provided with a number of niches and two windows widening from the inside. The building technique and compositional peculiarities of the house are characteristic of the end of the XVII and the beginning of the XVIII cent. Although each of the rooms has a separate entrance, they are linked to each other through a door. Base stones of entrances are processed.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 125.

Description

The structure had been used by the local Kurds as a supplemental part of their house, and was known as “Asli-Karam’s kilisa,” though the plan of the building indicates that the structure could not be assigned for cult purposes.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 125.

Consequently, the name kilisa (‘church’) given to it by later resident might only indicate that it was a remnant of the former, Christian population.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 125.

Type Photo
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative