Khtzkonk Monastery

Local nameBeşkilise
LocationKars, Turkey

Khtzkonk Monastery was a monastic ensemble of five Armenian churches built between the seventh and thirteenth centuries in what was then the Armenian Bagratid kingdom. It is now near the town of Digor, the administrative capital of the Digor district of the Kars Province in Turkey, about 19 kilometres west of the border with Armenia. The monastery is located in a gorge formed by the Digor River.

The monastery with its five churches was intact when photographed by the Armenian archaeologist Ashkharbek Kalantar in August 1920, just before Turkey captured the region from Armenia. In 1959 the French art historian Jean-Michel Thierry visited the site and found that four of the five churches had been destroyed, with only the Church of Saint Sargis surviving.

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khtzkonk_Monastery

Official Website http://www.virtualani.org/khtzkonk/index.htm

Address 36670, Turkey

Coordinates 40°22'51.346" N 43°22'37.104" E

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