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Ter Mesrop Kahana Ter Grigoryantsi House 1889 y․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Khanlar / Getashen

Location

This last one was located in the east of Sourb Astvatzatzin Church.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 370.

Historical Introduction
1980 y․

Both in the 19th century and the 1980s, “Ter-Grigoriants’ fine four-storey house and the former residence of the Melik-Mnatsakanians stand out of the other local buildings.”

Lalayan, Yer. Gandzak District. In: “Azgagrakan Handes,” vol. 5, Tiflis, 1899, No. 1, p. 110.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 370.

1911 y․

Some archive documents provide interesting information regarding the circumstances of the construction of Priest Mesrop’s house. In 1911, when he had already completed it, his fellow villagers applied to the spiritual powers to prevent his further building activity. As they stated, “...Priest Mesrop Ter-Grigoriants has occupied quite a large area at the expense of which he intends to extend his dwelling.” They also wrote that the aforementioned land belonged to the church and the priest was not entitled to appropriate it. In answer to that protest, Father Mesrop declared that he had built his house in his ancestral estate and not in the church domains.

National Archives of Armenia, fund 53, list 1 file 3436, p. 4.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, pp. 370-371.

Although there are no available sources to cast light on the further course of events, the priest, apparently, reached his aim, his magnificent residence standing as an eloquent proof of it.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 371.

One of the most remarkable buildings in the village, Priest Mesrop Ter-Grigoriants’ three-floor house (1889).

The house was reduced to ashes during the burning of the quarter by the Azerbaijanian bandits in the days of the occupation of Getashen, in May 1991.

Karapetian, Samvel. Azerbaijan out of Civilization, Yerevan, 2017, p. 63.

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Construction 1889 y․

Had the following construction inscription:
In the year 1889, I, Father Mesrop Ter-Hovhannessian Ter-Grigorian, and my spouse Shakhanum Khojayan built this house in memory of our sons.