Cemetery :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Cemetery

NKR / Kashatagh / Alghulishen

Description

In 1985 there still had been 15-20 quadrangular, finely processed inscribed grave stones, that remained from the vast Armenian cemetery on a small hill, at the left bank of a stream in the southwestern edge of the village. All the inscriptions referred to the late 19th - early 20th century.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 167.

1993 y․

During one of my trips undertaken after the liberation of this area in 1993 I discovered that the cemetery was also destroyed. Only a few fragments of tombstones in the yards of residential houses or fastened into the stone walls surrounding the private lots indicated that once there had been an Armenian cemetery.