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Srvegh Monastery13th–14th centuries

Tavush Province

Tavush Province
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13th–14th centuries
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Srvegh Monastery

Srvegh stands in the forest near Aygehovit at a place known as Khachi Tak, “beneath the cross.” Its principal church, Surb Nshan or Holy Sign, is a thirteenth-century domed hall by the architect Khachatur. The monastery is distinguished by its brick architecture.

An inscribed cross-stone stands on the altar platform of Surb Nshan, with other stones set into both faces of the east wall. In 1889 villagers led by Father Hovhannes built a single-nave Church of the Holy Mother of God to the north. Its west wall incorporates a much earlier thirteenth-century cross-stone.

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Srvegh Monastery

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