Muslim Tomb :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Muslim Tomb 17 c․

NKR / Kashunik / Maghanjugh / Novlu

Description

1.2 km northeast of Novlu, at the right side of the road leading to Ghurjulu, there is a tomb standing on an isolated hill. It is an octagonal structure with sharp dome, faced both in the outside and the inside, by finely processed yellowish stone.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 181.

Several gravestones preserved from the former cemetery are not inscribed as well as the walls of the tomb. Stylistically and com-positionally the graves are similar to those of the medieval Armenia, while the tomb is most probably of Persian provenance and belongs to the 17th century.