Gyulabi Hangstaran Cemetery :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Gyulabi Hangstaran Cemetery

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Shamkhor / Bada

Location

Another graveyard, located in the centre of the village, was known by the name of Gyulabi Hangstaran, i.e. the Armenian equivalent for ‘Gyulab’s Cemetery.’

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 458.

Description
1890 y․

S. Kamalian describes it in the following way, “As soon as you enter Legharak, the cemetery immediately catches your eye. Open from all sides, it serves as a pasture for the pigs and calves of the local people; well, this is a commonplace in Armenian villages.”

Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, p. 5.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 458.

Historical Introduction
15 c․

This graveyard retains one horse-shaped and many rectangular tombstones (all of them are sculptured) which reveal that the earliest funerals were held there in the 15th century.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 458.

1571 y․

The oldest inscribed gravestone (by 1980 it had already been removed) was erected in 1571, a record stating the following about it, “Regretfully, its epitaph is distorted beyond decipherment, but its face bears a relief of a standing woman, her uncovered hair plaited in a single braid hanging down her back. She is dressed in a long, buttoned up chemise under a short upper garment, her feet covered with... She is also wearing some jewellery, including ear-rings and bracelets, her left hand lying folded on her breast and the right one stretched towards a silver pitcher.”

Kajberuny. The Destruction of Bada Village. In: “Ararat,” 1910, p. 231.
S. Yeghishe Charents Art and Literature Museum. Sargis Kamalian Fund, copy-book No. 1, VI-11, p. 5.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 458.