Kurdish Cemetery :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Kurdish Cemetery

NKR / Kashatagh / Seydlyar

Location

800 m south of the village there was the most renowned Kurdish cemetery in the province.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 168.

Description
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The oldest Kurdish horse- and ram-shaped tombstones dating back to the beginning of the 19th century and burial vaults of the XIX-XX centuries are undisturbed.

This site had drawn the special attention of the Azerbaijanian scientists, see Rasim Efendi, Decorative-Applied Arts of Azerbaijan, Baku, 1976 (in Russian.); or When Stones Speak, Baku, 1980, (in Azerb.), and The National Art of Azerbaijan, Baku, 1984 of the same author (in Russian).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 168.

This cemetery was especially famous for the graves of Kurdish seids (saints) buried there.