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Sourb Astvatzatzin Church

Georgia / Javakhk / Akhalkalak / Ota

Scriptoria
1418 y․

The exact year of the foundation of the church of Sourb Astvatzatzin remains obscure, but it is mentioned in the colophon of a manuscript dating back to 1418: “By the grace of Sourb Astvatzatzin, in a village called Ota [and situated] in one of the districts of Georgia, in the days of Supreme Patriarch Nerses and Father Hakovbos, in the year 1418 of the Armenian calendar... May you remember my master ...Hovhannes otherwise called Voskepor, as well as loathsome scribe Mkrtich...”