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Church 1694 y․

NKR / Kashunik / Maghanjugh / Mazra

Architectural Description

The church is planned as a vaulted basilica with two sacristies by both sides of the altar apse. The only entrance is opened in the southern facade; it is a building of medium size, built of coarse and processed gray and violet basalt.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 179.

Description
1993 y․

This church was used as a hayloft till 1993. For the purpose of opening a new entrance, the residents dismantled the northern corner of the western facade. Cross-shaped window framing in the eastern facade of the church and the khachkar fastened into the southern wall (115 x 72 x 20) are damaged by bullets.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 180.

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1694 y․

The inscription on the tympanum containing 8 lines, is difficult to read because of apparently deliberate erasures:
KHOJA PETROS AND HIS SPOUSE, HIS SON HOVANNES, HIS PARENTS - MALIKSET, MARY, HIS BROTHERS ARAKEL, MARGAR ... ATI SUPERIOR HOVANNES AND THE MASTER OF THE VILLAGE... MALIK KALUST. THE SUPERVISOR FATHER SARKIS. YEAR 1694.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 180.

Type Photo
Direction From the south-east
Author Samvel Karapetyan

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

The window eave in the eastern

Type Photo
Direction From the south-west
Author Samvel Karapetyan

Author Samvel Karapetyan