Church :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Church

Turkey / Erzrum / Sper / Sper

Restoration

It was partially restored with flagrant mistakes—the original finely-finished masonry of large stones of dark colour has been replaced with others of light colour which are twice as narrow as the old ones. The space between their junctures, the existence of which is not justified at all, has been covered with negligently-done plaster as a result of which, the actual scale of the stone rows has been distorted, and the exterior of the church changed.

Hakobian Ashot, Archaeological Excavations and Restoration of Monuments in Western Armenia, in: "Vardzk", 2011, N 4, p. 17.

Type Photo
View Exterior
Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Colour Negative
Date 2007 y․

A view of the partially “restored” church of the castle