Yari Khach Pilgrimage Site :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Yari Khach Pilgrimage Site

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Shamkhor / Tatarli

Location

At the top of a mountain rising opposite the village, i.e. on the left bank of the river Zakam are preserved the ruins of a chapel called Yari Khach (the Armenian equivalent for ‘A Healing Cross’).

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 521.

Historical Introduction
1890 y․

In 1890 a visitor wrote the following about it, “...I continued my way westward via the Turkish village of Ayiplu, with the mountains of Memertlu towering on my right. A path that was extremely difficult of access led to the summit of a mountain, where the yard of a chapel could be seen with some stones around it. Everyone complaining of any pain and disease turned to it and was healed; that is why, it had been given the widespread name of Yari Khach. The believers visiting the sanctuary also included some Turkish pilgrims.”

Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, p. 2.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 521.