Mknatami Khach Church :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Mknatami Khach Church 12 — 13 cc․

NKR / Kashatagh / Ghushchi

Location

The small church named “Mknatami Khach” was built on top a bare rock, 1 km southeast of Ghushchi, at the left bank of Stunis, the right tributary of the Aghavnaget.

Another sanctuary named Mknatam was located in the north east of the village Tagh of Shatakh district. It was respected by both: the Armenians and the Kurds as healing from the ring worm ("Anthropological Magazine", vol. XXVI, Tiflis, 1916, p. 200 (in Arm.).
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 135.

Architectural Description
12 — 13 cc․

It is a vaulted basilica, built of processed basalt, in a style characteristic of the 12th -13th centuries (rather a chapel, than a church), with finely ornamented tympanum and window frames. The roof was tiled. External dimensions: 4,30 x 3,15 m. The preserved walls were not inscribed.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 138.

Type Photo
Direction From the west
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Date 1994 y․

Type Photo
Direction From the north-west
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Date 1994 y․