Portico :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Portico 14 c․

NKR / Karvajar / Dadivank

Description
14 c․

The hall with a colonnade, which filled the section of the yard between the cathedral, of 1214, the bell tower of 1283, the basilica and the parvis built before 1293, is the “most unpretentious structure, disproportional wide...” Actually all of the above mentioned structures are far more perfect by their architectural and aesthetic value than the columned hall. It seems the latter was built in much worser time, as late as in the XIV cent.

Murad Hasratian, The Artsakh School of Armenian Architecture, Yerevan, 1992, p. 49; The columnar hall could not be built before 1241. The opposite opinion may be the result of confusion of the place of dating or misreading ("Echmiadzin", 1971, 6-7, p. 69) (in Armenian); Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 98.

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Construction

An inscription of 2 lines on the wall of the Hall:
“BY THE WILL OF GOD I, SNPAT, THE SON OF VAKHTANK BUILT THE PARVIS OF THIS CHURCH AND GAVE SHINADZOR WITHIN ITS BORDERS AND DOPUN TAPN TO THE CHURCH.”

Published in: "Corpus", Issue 5, compiled by S. Barkhudarian, Yerevan, 1982, p. 214 (N 756); Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 115.

Type Photo
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Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative

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Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Colour Negative

Type Photo
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Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Colour Negative

Type Photo
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Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative