Church of the Holy Mother of God, Verin Getashen
The Church of the Holy Mother of God was built in Verin Getashen in 1878. Several stones around its doorway are considerably older. Shirin’s khachkar of 1666, broken in two, is set above the south entrance. The gravestone of Asip and Gulsel, dated to the fifteenth or sixteenth century, serves as a door lintel.
Shaham’s cross-stone, from the fourteenth or fifteenth century, occupies the baptismal niche. Its lower part is missing. An inscribed khachkar of the same period is set into the sanctuary platform. Together they show how medieval monuments were incorporated into the fabric of the nineteenth-century church.
The cemetery north of the church contains monuments from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. A pair of khachkars stands by the north wall. The left one commemorates Ghuli and dates to 1567, the right one commemorates Margar. The state inventory also records a nineteenth-century bell tower, now destroyed.