Karmir Vank Monastery :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Karmir Vank Monastery 12 — 13 cc․

NKR / Karvajar / Mos

Location

It is situated on a hill 1.5 km east of Mos, on the right bank of a stream also called Mos.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 67.

Architectural Description
12 — 13 yy․

There are walls of a basilica church, built of semi-processed and processed stones. Although the tympanum of the only entrance in the western facade, is not inscribed, stylistic and constructive peculiarities of this church are characteristic of the XII-XIII cent. The walls are 78-80 cm wide, and external dimensions are 6.90 x 4.83 m.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 67.

Description
1911 y․

The map of the Russian Chief Military Headquarters published in 1911 marked this church as Karmirvank (or in Turkish - Ghzlvank).

"Publications of the Military-Topographic Dept. of the Chief Headquarters", 1911 (in Russian); Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 67.

Type Measurement
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Sketch

Author Samvel Karapetyan
Date 2015 y․

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Ghzlvank