Ruskan Nahatak Pilgrimage Site :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Ruskan Nahatak Pilgrimage Site

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Pib

Location

Another pilgrimage site, known by the name of Ruskan Nahatak (the Armenian equivalent for ‘Ruskan the Martyr’), is located at the top of a mountain north-west of Pib.

Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, p. 300.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 215.

Historical Introduction

It used to retain a big cross-stone.