St. Hreshtakapetats Monastery :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

St. Hreshtakapetats Monastery 1816 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Shamkhor / Garnaker

Location

Hreshtakapetats (of the Holy Archangels) Monastery is situated on the left bank of the river Shamkor, 150 metres south of Tzaghkots Cloister. The only building of this monastery to have come down to us is a church.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 489.

Description
19 c․

Some topographers who visited Hreshtakapetats Monastery at the close of the 19th century describe it as a semi-ruined, derelict complex devoid of any lands (all that it possessed comprised a garden) and consigned to the care of a solitary priest.

Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, pp. 316-317.
Lalayan, Yer. Gandzak District. In: “Azgagrakan Handes,” vol. 5, Tiflis, 1899, No. 1, p. 343.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, pp. 489-490.

Estates
1910 y․

The monument was in the same state in the first decades of the 20th century: thus, a register of the dominions of Gandzak monasteries, made up on 28 June 1910, states the following, “...a vineyard and mulberry wood occupying an area of about three dessiatinas and hardly yielding forty buckets of wine a year. The post of Prior is held by Archimandrite Hovhannes Baraghamian, who has seen 106 springs, ...being appointed in 1882.”

National Archives of Armenia, fund 56, list 6, file 775, p. 27.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 490:

Architectural Description
19 c․

At the end of the 19th century, Hreshtakapetats Monastery still preserved its church, the adjoining gavit and monks’ dwellings: “The cloister also has a gavit of stone and mortar which retains some graves. ...It possesses a garden and nine old cells with narrow windows and low doors...”

Barkhutariants, M. Artsakh. Baku, 1895, pp. 316, 317.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 490.

Description
1984 y․

By the time we visited the monastery in 1984, only its church had been preserved, and that on the verge of final collapse.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 490.

Type Photo
View Partial view
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1980 — 1982 yy․

Hreshtakapetats Monastery with Tzaghkots Cloister in the background

Type Photo
View General
Direction From the south-west
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Colour Negative
Date 1980 — 1982 yy․

Type Photo
View Interior
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Colour Negative

A distorted fresco preserved in the bema