Mar (St.) Petros An Assyrian church :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Mar (St.) Petros An Assyrian church

Iran / Western Atrpatakan / Salmast / Gulizan

Location

An Assyrian church, Mar (St.) Petros, once stood at the very extremity of Gulizan, 110 metres north (N 38°08°31.20°°; E 044°43°19.44°°) of the Armenian church.

Karapetian. Samvel, History of Armenia, Salmast, vol. 2, Yerevan, 2019, p. 166.

Description

It was a structure of a rectangular plan (outer dimensions: 16.90 x 8.90 metres) only some remnants of which were still preserved in 2013. An Assyrian graveyard extending in its vicinity retained some Assyrian epitaphs of the 1870s and a number of displaced gravestones.

Artaz, no. 4 (April 2013), p. 5. Karapetian. Samvel, History of Armenia, Salmast, vol. 2, Yerevan, 2019, p. 166.

Author Samvel Karapetyan
Date 2011 y․

Type Measurement
Author Ashot Hakobian
Source Sketch
Date 2011 y․

The plan of the Assyrian church