Church :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Church

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Getamij

Historical Introduction
1890 y․

As stated by a visitor in the early 1890s, “…it has... a church of medium size without any pillars. The site of the devastated village is now inhabited by some Turks.”

Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, p. 175.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 148.

Description
1986 y․

Almost a hundred years later, in 1986, we found the aforementioned Armenian church totally reduced to ruins. Its only surviving part was its northern wall, that formed part of the enclosure of a Turkish garden. The fragments of some khachkars and tombstones could be seen in the vicinity of the monument.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 148.

Type Photo
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1980 — 1982 yy․

The remnants of a church