St. Astvatzatzin
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

The church of St Astvatzatzin (Mother of God) in
Armenia Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia (country), Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to ...
is a series of small, free-standing cruciform churches and was built in 1866 and for which quite a large number of decorative parts from the already ruined
cathedral A cathedral is a church (building), church that contains the of a bishop, thus serving as the central church of a diocese, Annual conferences within Methodism, conference, or episcopate. Churches with the function of "cathedral" are usually s ...
was used. The entire area contains a rich presence of historical evidence, among others the remnants of building, which according to T. Tormanian are the ruins of noble residence, probably belonging to the house of
Kamsarakan The House of Kamsarakan () was an Armenian noble family that was an offshoot of the House of Karen, also known as the Karen-Pahlav. The Karens were one of the Seven Great Houses of Iran and were of Parthian origin. In the Byzantine-Sasanian era ...
.


References

*Agency for Conservation of Historical and Cultural Monuments, Republic of Armenia; Encyclopedia of Armenia 19th-century churches in Armenia Churches completed in 1866 1866 establishments in the Russian Empire {{coord missing, Armenia