Albanian monuments of Karabakh

[MosJan]

MONASTERIES AND TEMPLES ON THE TERRITORY OF Artsax

 

 

The Agoglan monastery complex

The Agoglan Monastery Complex

The complex is situated at the river Agoglan in Lachin district. Three-naved rectangular basilica in a plan is quite big. The two rows from eight squared abutment columns-pylons divide divide internal naves. The well-balanced, graceful, rotunda on the thin columns is crowned with the pyramidal marquee. It is situated on the hip-roof. The monumental basilica is made of solid stone and it blends well with rigorous mountain nature. The Agoglan monastery complex dates back to the IX century.

 

 

Central temple and

chapet of Khotavan cloiser

The Hatavan Monastery Complex

The complex is situated in the Vank village of Kelbadjar district. This complex consists of the basilica, the temple and the chapel. The basilica is a hall without internal columns. The eastern part of the hall is ended with the semicircular apse with sacristies on each side. The well - preserved cathedral was built by the Albanian tzar Ovanes Hachen. Hatavan became a Christian religion center of the Alban-Hachen principality from the X till the XV century. In 1214 Arzu Hatun the spouse of the albanian tzar Vahtang had built a church in a memory of her perished spouse and two son. The complex dates back to the IX century.

 

 

The Amaras monastery complex

The Amarass Monastery Complex

The complex is situated in the Sos village of Hodjaven district. The complex consist of a church basilica, an underground part, dwelling and household buildings and stone fortress wall. In a plan, the church is rectangular. The internal space of a church is divided by four pylons that are situated two in row, on three naves are narrow. The central nave from the eastern side ends with the altar apse, which is covered with semi cupola. In 1970 during the archaeological inspection under the altar apse an underground lodging measuring 2*4 meters was discovered. It is overed by an arch and this floor is on a level of 5.2 meters bellow the church floor. Sources inform about the construction of this temple in the VI-VII century.

The internal yard of the fortress is divided into two sides. The first one is a house holding yard, where service buildings and stables are located. The second part of the internal yard of the fortress is the church's yard, where the church is situated.

 

The St. Yelisey Temple Complex

The complex is located in Magavis village of Aqdereh district. A fortress of the complex has a very comfortable position and provides the strong defence and it is a typical for medieval Azerbaijan. On the territory of the fortress there are twelve buildings of different usage. There are a main temple, a chapel, a two - storied dwelling house, service buildings and stables. According the legend, the temple was built in the fourth century in honour of the first preacher of Christianity St. Yelisy in Albania. The main temple consist of two parts. The first one is a hall that has square form in a plan. The internal space is divided by two columns and the pylons into three equal naves and the entral nave is higher. They are covered by the cylindrical vaults. On the roof there is a steeple on the four columns. Second part of the main temple is a rectangular pray hall. They are six small chapels on the right and the left sides of the main temple. The complex dates from the XIV century.

 

 

Gandzasar Monastery Complex

The Gandzasar Monastery Complex

The complex is situated in the Vanklu village of the Aqdereh district. The complex consists of the mainmonastery, the narthex and added to it from the west side some subsidiary buildings. The complex was built by Hachen prince Hasan Djalal in 1240. But it is supposed that Hasan didn’t built it. He just reconstructed an already existing temple. The narthex was built in 1265. The architecture of monastery is a cross-cupola composition. Its sources come from the VII-XI centuries. There are two prolonged rooms with the semicircular apse between them in the corner of the building. In the low corners of the building there are the choirs. The drum of the temple is round inside and it is composed of eight pairs thin semi columns - wips crossing suspension arches. The decoration of the drum has got a meaning, which is made by sculptural images. The architecture of the stalactite vault which is lean on the compound system of the tiered stalactites is the compositional main body of the narthex. This is a short architectural description of this five memorials of Caucasian Albania situated on the Artsax territory of Azerbaijan. It is known that Armenian scientist”falsifiers in every way possible try to prove that Caucasian Albania and all its architecture relate to historic Armenia. Their claims to albanian territories have no any scientific reason. Architectural planning and constructional methods of the monuments of Caucasian Albania differ a lot from the architectural monuments of Armenia. Albanian architects of Azerbaijan made their own Architectural - planning and building methods. They achieved a great perfection an carving.

Source : Albanian monuments of Artsax, Baku 1998

 

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[ December 16, 2001: Message edited by: MosJan ]

[bellthecat]

You can be sure that all these buildings will be "Armenian" again just before they are blown up by the Azeris after the fall of Nagorno-Artsax.

 

I'll be surprised if NK still exists by the autumn of next year, and these (and other) monuments will probably be destroyed within a year after that date. (Lack of U.S. supplied high explosives and training will mean they will last a little longer than the Serbian monuments in Kosovo - most of which were destroyed within 4 months of the start of Albanian control).

[khodja]

bellthecat,

 

Surely, you jest! The Azeri Army has shown itself to be inept time and time again. N was artificially included in Azerbaijan by Stalin and is now back in Armenian hands where it belongs. There are no Azeris in NK. It is an Armenian province. No Armenians to gurd the Christian monuments? What do you propose to do, have another Armenian Genocide?

[MJ]

In case there is a confussion, karabagh.org is maintained by Azeris, I think.

[MosJan]

karabagh.org is maintained by Azeris

[bellthecat]

N0 - I DO NOT JEST (but I wish I was)

It is almost certain that president Bush now that he has started his killing frenzy will extend it to Iraq. In this new war he will get no support from Europe or the Middle East (except Israel obviously). This leaves only Turkey and the US's new "best friend" Azerbaijan to support America's actions - and America WILL need their support (and airspace, and air bases).

The price of that support will be the diplomatic "nod and wink" that whatever Azerbaijan and Turkey want to do in their internal politics is OK with the USA - and Nagorno Artsax IS an integral part of Azerbaijan according to US foreign policy.

Armenia has diplomatically squandered the last 7 years (it seems they didn't even have the sense to take the domain name karabagh.org!) The foolishness of all this is without parallel when you consider that the NK army will always be unable to win an outright victory against Azerbaijan, the best it can do is win localised battles.

And it only needs one major Armenian defeat for NK to collapse. Odds dictate that eventually a defeat WILL come, and all the signs and portents are that a new Azeri offensive will come soon, next spring probably.

Steve

[Azat]

Steve,

What is it that you have been smoking lately? You should change the source of your drugs because you are not getting any good stuff. You are starting to hallucinate.

 

Just because Armenians did not get Karabak.org does not mean anything. Sony did not get theirs and neither did McDonalds or MTV and many many others. They had to buy the URL. Armenians have not.

 

Secondly Armenians fought hard and only succeeded in wining the war after they stopped getting aid from Russia.

 

Armenians will not surrender NK to Azeri’s. I can guarantee you that.

[bellthecat]

Nagorno Artsax has not won the war, it have won the last few battles. This is not a war that Nagorno Artsax can EVER finally win on battlefields. (You are the one on drugs if you believe otherwise )

[Azat]

Ya, but I only get the good stuff.

No war is ever won on the battlefield, but NK will never become Azeri land.