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Sourb Astvatzatzin Church 19 c․

NKR / Fizuli / Hogher

Historical Introduction
19 c․

The Holy Virgin church of Hogher is a single nave vaulted basilica erected on the foundation of an older church in the late XIX century. The church under the same name was mentioned in one of the archive records of 1880.

SCHARA, F. 56, L. 6, C. 33, p. 17 (in Arm.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 222.

Architectural Description

It was built of coarse stone and mortar, processed were the corner stones. The only entrance was made in the northern wall. The baptism font is in its traditional place (in the northern wall). The tub-shaped font was cut of a single piece of stone. Due to the relief, the eastern facade was mostly buried in the ground.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 222.

Description

Visiting the village in about 1890, Makar Bishop Barkhutariants, observed that the residents of the village “were aborigines” and the building of the “parish church was incomplete”

M. Bishop Barkhutariants, Artsakh, Baku, 1895, p. 71.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 222.

Type Photo
Direction From the north-east
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative

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

The only entrance in the northern facade