Church :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Church

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Getabek / Daya-Gharabulagh

Location
19 c․

In the late 19th century, a church was preserved on the slope of a gorge lying on the right bank of the river, in an area adjoining the village site of Jokhtak Kamurj (Bayramli).

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 241.

Description
1890 y․

The earliest record bearing reference to it dates from 1890: “...to the left of the confluence of the two branches of the river Shamkor, near the wood reserves of the copper mine lies a gorge surrounded by lofty mountains on both sides. It leads to Ghosha Kyopri, where a monastery stands. That branch of the river is called Ghashkha-Chay...”

Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, p. 24.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 241.

Another visitor who travelled in the area almost during the same period writes, “On an elevation on the right bank of the stream, east of the railway terminus stands a church with its roof toppled.”