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Kirants Monastery
The story behind Kirants is extraordinary. This church unlike all other monasteries built in Armenia is constructed mostly by brick and mortar. "Kir" is the word for mortar. "-ants" brings meaning that the previous word has "passed" the level, or is not level or uneven. The village had a one very rich man who had one very beautiful daughter. A master craftsman and mason had fallen in love ...
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Makaravanq
The main church of Makaravank was built in 1205.The church is rectangular outside and a cruciform, domed hall inside. There are two-storey side chapels at the right and left corners of the altar. The interior is generously decorated with highly artistic works of the Armenian medieval sculptors. The ornaments having shapes of octagon stars and octahedrons with carved bas-reliefs depicting mythic ...
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Lori Fortress
The necropolis and the dwelling occupy the territory of about 500 hectares. Lori Fortress survived more than one and a half thousand years, beginning from the last two centuries of the 3rd millennium B.C. up to the middle of the 1st millennium B.C. Four cultural phases followed, beginning from the Middle Bronze Age up to the Late Iron Age, or including the period of the Kingdom of Van. The ...
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Yerits Mankants Monastery
It is the most notable example of monasteries built during the late Middle Ages in Artsakh, after an interruption in church building from the 14th to 16th centuries. Yerits Mankants monastery was built around 1691 in the historical county of Jraberd. The monastery was established by the feudal family of Melik-Israelians, Lords of Jraberd, with an apparent purpose to rival ...
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Aghtsk
According to 5th century historian Pavstos Buzand, troops of the Sassanid king Shapuh II destroyed the Arshakuni ancestral burial place at Ani-Kamah and "captured the Arshakuni Kings' remains, failing only to open the burial vault of King Sanatruk which was an enormous and incredibly strong and ingeniously built structure.” The remains of the other kings were carried to Persia in an ...
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