Armenian church turned into cowshed in Azerbaijan

Yervant1 · December 2, 2012

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 · December 2, 2012

Azerbaijan Destroys Armenian Monuments

15:12 30/11/2012

Story from Lragir.am News:

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.

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