Hnevank
Sign in to saveHnevank (; meaning "Old Monastery") is a 7th-12th century Armenian Apostolic Church monastery, located near the village of Kurtan in the Lori Province of Armenia. The monastery is situated on a hill within a gorge, near where the Dzoraget and Gargar rivers join.
Key facts
- Religious building.building_name
- HnevankՀնեվանք
- Religious building.image
- Hnevank-raffi kojian-DCP 4488.JPG
- Religious building.image_size
- 275px
- Religious building.caption
- Hnevank before reconstruction.
- Religious building.map_type
- Armenia
- Religious building.map_size
- 275
- Religious building.location
- near Kurtan, Lori Province, Armenia
- Religious building.religious_affiliation
- Armenian Apostolic Church
- Religious building.region
- Lori
- Religious building.architecture
- yes
- Religious building.architecture_style
- Armenian
- Religious building.year_completed
- 7th-12th century
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Hnevank (; meaning "Old Monastery") is a 7th-12th century Armenian Apostolic Church monastery, located near the village of Kurtan in the Lori Province of Armenia. The monastery is situated on a hill within a gorge, near where the Dzoraget and Gargar rivers join.
The monastery was entirely rebuilt by lord Smbat of the House of Orbelian, a branch of the Liparitids who were expelled from Georgia and into Armenia in the late 12th century. Liparitids were themselves a branch of the Mamikonians. Smbat was the ancestor of the Armenian princes of Syunik. A Georgian inscription around the drum attests his name.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hnevank” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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