St. Gevorg Monastery was a ruinous Armenian monastery located near
Khanagah village (
Julfa District
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) of the
Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic
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The monastery was located on a hill, approximately 3 km northeast of
Yernjak (Alinja) fortress.
[Ayvazyan, Argam. ''The Historical Monuments of Nakhichevan.'' Transl. Krikor H. Maksoudian. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990, pp. 60–61.]
History
The monastery was founded in the 9th century; in 841 a church council met here. It is mentioned by the 13th-century historian
Stepanos Orbelian. It was renovated in the 14th and 17th centuries.
[Ayvazyan, Argam. ''Nakhijevani ISSH haykakan hushardzannery. Hamahavak tsutsak.'' Yerevan: Hayastan, 1986, p. 76.]
Architecture
The monastery was a vaulted building with a single-chamber nave. It had a semicircular apse, entryways in the northern and western facades, a vestry along the northern facade, and a porch on the west.
Destruction
The monastery was in ruins in the late Soviet period and the ruins were still intact on October 7, 2001.
However, by November 11, 2009, the foundations of the monastery had been razed, the blocks removed, and the site graded, as documented by investigation of the Caucasus Heritage Watch.
References
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Destroyed Armenian Apostolic monasteries in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic