Veri Zham Chapel :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Veri Zham Chapel 12 — 13 cc․

Georgia / Javakhk / Akhalkalak / Khorenia

Location

A chapel called Veri Zham (i.e. Upper Church) is situated at the western extremity of Khorenia.

Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 260.

Architectural Description

It represents a uni-nave vaulted monument (exterior dimensions: 5.85 x 3.80 metres) thoroughly built of finely-finished stone, with its only entrance opening from the south. The composition and building peculiarities of this sanctuary, as well as its style of decoration trace it back to the period between the 12th and 13th centuries, but it is surrounded by an Armenian cemetery of densely-located graves chronologically reaching the 17th to 18th centuries.

Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 260.

Description
1830 — 1896 yy․

This graveyard also served the Armenian resettlers who took up residence in Khorenia in 1830. This comes to suggest that the chapel of Veri Zham has belonged to it in the past several centuries. In 1896 I. Rostomashvili declared that the inscriptions of the sanctuary had been deliberately damaged to such an extent that they had become absolutely unintelligible.

Ростомов И., Ахалкалакский уезд в археологическом отношении.– Сборник Материалов для Описания Местностей и Племен Кавказа, вып. XXV, 1898, стр. 121: Also see ცისკარიშვილი ვ., idem, p. 60: Karapetian. Samvel, Javakhk, Yerevan, 2011, p. 260.

Type Photo
View Exterior
Direction From the south-west
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1988 — 1989 yy․

Type Photo
View Exterior
Direction From the south-east
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1988 — 1989 yy․

Type Photo
View Exterior
Direction From the south
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1988 — 1989 yy․

Type Photo
View Exterior
Direction From the north-west
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1988 — 1989 yy․

Type Photo
View Exterior
Direction From the north
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1988 — 1989 yy․

Type Photo
View Exterior
Direction From the north-west
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1988 — 1989 yy․

Type Photo
View Exterior
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1988 — 1989 yy․

The tympanum of its only entrance opening from its southern facade

Type Photo
View Exterior
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1988 — 1989 yy․

The frame of its western window

Type Measurement
View Exterior
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Sketch