Pokr Gates :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Pokr Gates 13 c․

NKR / Karvajar / Dadivank

Description

The second - smaller gate is in the western side of the Cathedral. The road from this entrance leads to the chapels, situated not too far in the northwest.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 99.

1181 y․

Although it is impossible to date the gates precisely, two inscribed and dated khachkars fastened into the walls (1181 and 1200) indicate that the fortress walls, as well as the gates should have presumably been built after 1200.