суббота, 19 мая 2012 г.
Varagavank
Varagavank
also known as Yedi Kilise (Turkish for "Seven Churches"), was a
prominent Armenian monastery founded in the 11th century on the slopes of Mount
Varag 9km east of the city of Van in Turkey's Eastern Anatolia region.
The monastery of Varag was founded by the Armenian King Senekerim-Hovhannes (Sennacherib-Jacob) of the Artsruni Dynastyearly in his reign (1003-24) to house a relic of the True Cross that had been kept in a simple 7th century hermitage on the same site. It also was the location of the necropolois of the Artsruni kings.
Over the years, Varagavank became the richest and most celebrated monastery of the Lake Van area. The Armenian archbishops of Van resided here until the late nineteenth century, when one of them, the future Catholicos Mkrtich Khrimian "Hayrik" (Father), founded Artsiv Vaspurakani (The Eagle of Vaspurakan), the first newspaper ever printed in Armenia proper.
The monastery of Varag was founded by the Armenian King Senekerim-Hovhannes (Sennacherib-Jacob) of the Artsruni Dynastyearly in his reign (1003-24) to house a relic of the True Cross that had been kept in a simple 7th century hermitage on the same site. It also was the location of the necropolois of the Artsruni kings.
Over the years, Varagavank became the richest and most celebrated monastery of the Lake Van area. The Armenian archbishops of Van resided here until the late nineteenth century, when one of them, the future Catholicos Mkrtich Khrimian "Hayrik" (Father), founded Artsiv Vaspurakani (The Eagle of Vaspurakan), the first newspaper ever printed in Armenia proper.
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