Saint John’s Church, Geghamavan
Saint John’s Church in Geghamavan dates from the nineteenth century. A vestibule was added on its south side in 1906. This addition marks a second building phase and can be distinguished from the body of the earlier church.
Particularly revealing is the front face of the raised sanctuary platform. Two stones set into it date from the tenth century. The third stone from the left, broken in two, dates to the ninth or tenth century. Another khachkar of the same early period sits in the south niche of the sanctuary. A later example was installed horizontally in the sanctuary.
The medieval carvings continue beyond the main worship space. A tenth-century cross-stone is set into the wall of the south vestibule. Medieval stonework was thus incorporated into both the nineteenth-century church and its early twentieth-century extension.