Sourb Astvatzatzin Church :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Sourb Astvatzatzin Church 17 c․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Getabek / Getabek

Historical Introduction
17 c․

Dating back to the early 17th century (its walls bear donation inscriptions of 1617 and 1621).

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 230.

Architectural Description

Sourb Astvatzatzin Church represents a tri-nave basilica (exterior dimensions: 17.28 x 9.72 metres). The vault, lying below a gable roof, is inwardly supported by two pairs of quadrangular pillars. In the east, i.e. to the left and right of the main apse, two vestries are located. The entrance of the church, which is built of undressed and roughly-finished stone and mortar, opens into the gavit adjoining the monument in the west.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 230.

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1617 y․

“...engraved in the form of a cross” near a yerdik-shaped window:
May this Holy Cross protect Manuel. In the year 1617.
The Armenian original published in: “Ararat,” 1872, p. 270.
Corpus Inscriptionum Armenicarum, part 5. Compiled by Barkhudarian, S. Yerevan, 1982, p. 268.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 232.

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1621 y․

Engraved “...in a circular form...” on an anchor-shaped stone lying on the part of the roof covering the bema:
This Holy Cross is in memory of Bishop David ... and his dead relatives. 1621.
The Armenian original published in: “Ararat,” 1872, p. 270.
Corpus Inscriptionum Armenicarum, part 5. Compiled by Barkhudarian, S. Yerevan, 1982, p. 268.