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Armenian church turned into cowshed in Azerbaijan

http://www.arminfo.a...2CAF6327207157C
Friday, November 30, 17:48

The Armenian church of the XIX century located in Dash-bulakh village
of Azerbaijan has been turned into a cowshed, director of Armenian
architecture fund (RAA), Samvel Karapetyan, said at today's
press-conference.

He said that the Azerbaijani party is trying to hide that the church
is Armenian and called it "Albanian". He also added that such a policy
has been always conducted by the Azerbaijani authorities since the
Soviet times. For instance, in a book "Architecture of ancient and
middle age Azerbaijan" published in 1986, the Armenian khachkars
(cross stones) of Old Jugha were called "Albanian khachdashes".

He also added that Armenian Foreign Ministry and Culture Ministry
could raise in international structures the problem of such an
attitude to the Armenian monuments. However, as he said, even the fact
of destruction of the Armenian cross stones of Old Jugha by
Azerbaijani servicemen was fully ignored by the Armenian authorities.

[Yervant1]

Azerbaijan Destroys Armenian Monuments

15:12 30/11/2012
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am...iety/view/28216

Azeris continue calling old Armenian monuments Albanese and destroying
them. We have information that today Armenian complexes in Nakhidjevan
are also called Albanese, said monument expert Samvel Karapetyan. He
talked about St. Gevorg church of Dashbulagh saying it is used as a
stall. Dashbulagh was an Armenian village up to 1918, St. Gevorg was
built in 1828. In 1918, during the Turkish invasion, 50 villages with
all the monuments were destroyed.

Samvel Karapetyan says the Turks who now live in the village use the
Armenian church as a stall and tell everyone once it was an Albanese
church.

Samvel Karapetyan's experience shows we are not consistent to the
solution of such issues.