Church of the Holy Mother of God, Tsovak
The Church of the Holy Mother of God in Tsovak was built in the nineteenth century and restored in the 1990s. To its east stands a two-storey bell tower, also dated to the nineteenth century. Its separate position makes the tower a building in its own right within the church precinct.
The first medieval carving is visible before entering. A khachkar, or carved cross-stone, from the twelfth century is set above the doorway. Inside, the east wall incorporates two more khachkars. One dates to the fourteenth century and the other to the fifteenth.
Walking from the entrance towards the sanctuary brings three different periods of carving into view. These older works make it possible to study medieval stone carving within a church whose own construction belongs to a much later period.