St. Hovhannes Church was an Armenian church located in village of
Tumbul
Tumbul is a village and municipality in the Nakhchivan (city), Nakhchivan city of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan. It is located 5 km in the south from the city center, on the Nakhchivan plain. Its population is mainly busy with gr ...
of the
Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic
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of
Azerbaijan
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.
The church was located in the center of the village.
[Ayvazyan, Argam. ''Nakhijevani ISSH haykakan hushardzannery. Hamahavak tsutsak.'' Yerevan: Hayastan, 1986, pp. 121–122.]
History
The church was founded in the 16th or 17th century and was renovated in the 19th century.
[Ayvazian, Argam. ''The Historical Monuments of Nakhichevan.'' Transl. Krikor H. Maksoudian. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990, p. 101.] In 1868, a bilingual Armenian and Russian school was opened in the church.
The church had already been a target of destruction in the late Soviet period; the western, northern, and southern walls of the church were completely razed to the ground, but the two-storied bell tower was still standing.
By March 12, 2005, whatever was remaining from the church had been razed and the vacant plot walled off for reuse as a garden.
References
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Destroyed Armenian Apostolic churches in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic