Kendivan Village Site :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Kendivan Village Site

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Shamkhor / Kamandar

Historical Introduction

“The main village site in the neighbourhood of Kamandar is Kendivan, with a spring at its beginning: its population once inhabited both slopes of the gorge. ...It also has a thoroughly reconstructed church of a wooden roof and a small door, with all its cross-stones gathered together.”

Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, pp. 8, 9.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 503

Description

“A cart-road leads from Santruk to Kendivan: the latter, which comprises some ruined house sites and a cemetery of old blocks of stone, is inhabited by several families from Legharak who are not able to convey farming tools, as well as carts and bunches of grass from one village to another..."

Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, p. 8.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 503.