Bridge :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Bridge 1880 — 1883 yy․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Khachakap

Location

The bridge stretches on a road leading to Khachakap Village, Karhat (Dashkesan) District, Northern Artsakh—a region that suffered deportation of its Armenian population in 1988 and has been annexed to Azerbaijan since then—in the north-east of Targmanchats Cloister.

Karapetian, Samvel. The Bridges of Artsakh, Yerevan, 2009, p. 117.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 195.

Historical Introduction
1880 — 1883 yy․

A single-span vaulted structure, it was erected through prominent benefactor Alexandre Tayiriants’s means between 1880 and 1883.

Karapetian, Samvel. The Bridges of Artsakh, Yerevan, 2009, p. 117.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 195.

Another inscription commemorating the foundation of the bridge is preserved on the entrance to the church of the cloister.

Ardzagank, 1886, No. 21, p. 309 (the original in Armenian).
Karapetian, Samvel. The Bridges of Artsakh, Yerevan, 2009, p. 117.

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Construction 1880 — 1883 yy․

Its construction inscription (see the original in the Armenian text) reads:
Transl.: This bridge [and] two-verst road [leading] to the holy monastery were built under the patronage of Alexandre Mkrtchian Tayiriants from Yerevan, 1880 to 1883.
“Without consulting Mr. Tayiriants, the pious prior asked the Lord to forgive him for his debts and sins through the following lines from a poem by Nerses Shnorhali (the Gracious) engraved on the pedestal of the inscribed stone.”
You, that bestow all blessings upon man, please, forgive me my vain illusions.
The Armenian original published in: “Ardzagank,” 1886, No. 21, p. 309; Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, pp. 195-196.
Note: The exact date of the construction of the bridge (1881) is engraved on a finely-cut stone set in one of its walls. In 1988 it was still preserved in its original position

Samvel Karapetian, The Bridges of Artsakh, Yerevan, 2009, p. 117.

Type Photo
View Exterior
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1980 — 1982 yy․

The year of the construction of the bridge of the monastery

Type Photo
View Exterior
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1980 — 1982 yy․