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Historical Introduction

A record of 1896 stated that the village had neither a church nor a priest. However, the present-day inhabitants of Hmbanava still remember the location of the church site (N 38º10°62.76°°; E 044º36°05.40°°), which comes to reject the trustworthiness of the aforementioned record: in 1896 the church of the village was simply in ruins, and for this reason, its existence was ignored.

Պալունի, Վիճակագրական տեղեկութիւն Սալմաստ գաւառի հայ ազգաբնակութեան [Palouny, “Statistical Data Regarding the Armenian Population in Salmast District”], «Նոր-Դար» [Nor-Dar], no. 216, 10 December 1896, p. 3.
Karapetian. Samvel, History of Armenia, Salmast, vol. 2, Yerevan, 2019, p. 293.

Now there is a walled garden in the church site.

Karapetian. Samvel, History of Armenia, Salmast, vol. 2, Yerevan, 2019, p. 293.

Author Sasun Danielian
Date 2017 y․