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Church 17 c․

NKR / Kashatagh / Hunchak

Description

We know that the Kurds settling here after the Armenians deserted the village used the parish church as a hayloft for their cattle. Later during the last decades of the Soviet rule the church was turned to a bakery (to modify the building to these purposes, they rebuilt separate sections of the church, and linked other structures to its southern and western sides).

"Anthropological Revue", Book 4, N 2, Tiflis, 1898, p. 49.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 157.

Architectural Description
17 c․

The church was planned as a vaulted basilica, built of coarse stone and mortar. It had a semicircular main altar apse. The only entrance was open in the southern wall. Each wall was provided with one window, widening in the inside. The baptism font was in the northern wall. Walls were 105-110 cm wide. External dimensions were: 13.40 x 8.15 cm. Presumably, the church was built in the second half of the XII cent.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 159.

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Direction From the north-east
Author Samvel Karapetyan
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Author Samvel Karapetyan
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Author Samvel Karapetyan

Author Raffi Kortoshian
Date 2020 y․

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Author Raffi Kortoshian
Date 2020 y․