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Sourb Astvatzatzin Church

NKR / Kashatagh / Anapatik

Historical Introduction
1361 y․

The village Anapatik in the gorge of Haykara is mentioned alongside with its Holy Virgin Church in the colophon of the “Comments on the Mass”: “This was written by the hand of the commenter of the mass Zakare abegha, in the gorge of Haykara, in the village, which is called Anapatik, under the auspices of the Holy Virgin church, during the priorship of Father Stephanos, in the reign of Khan Huys, in bitter years of Christian victimization... Written in year 1361.”

L. S. Khachikian, Colophons of the Armenian Manuscripts of the 14th cent, Yerevan, 1950, p. 450.
"List of the Manuscripts", vol. 2, 1970, Man. N 8256, p. 706 (in Arm.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 177.