Church :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Church 1641 y․

NKR / Kashunik / Japkut

Architectural Description

The church still standing in the centre of the village represents a single nave vaulted basilica, built of coarse stone and mortar (external dimensions: 13.70 x 8.15 m). It has one sacristy in the southern side of the altar. The baptism niche is in the northern wall. Eastern and western facades are damaged and half-decayed.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 182.

Description
15 — 16 cc․

Several uninscribed khachkars are fastened into different sections of interior walls. Judging by their stylistic and artistic features they may date back to the XV-XVI cent.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 182.

Type Photo
Direction From the south-east
Author Samvel Karapetyan

Type Photo
Author Samvel Karapetyan

Entrance in the southern facade

Type Photo
Direction From the east
Author Samvel Karapetyan