Narekavank
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Narekavank (, "Monastery of Narek", Western Armenian: Nareg) was a tenth-century Armenian monastery in the historic province of Vaspurakan, near the southern shores of Lake Van, in present-day Gevaş district in Van Province in eastern Turkey. The monastery was one of the most prominent in medieval Armenia and had a major school. The poet Gregory of Narek (Grigor Narekatsi) notably flourished at the monastery. It was abandoned in 1915 during the Armenian genocide, and reportedly demolished around 1951. A mosque now stands on its location.
Key facts
- Religious building.building_name
- Narekavank
- Religious building.image
- File:Narekavank.jpg
- Religious building.image_upright
- 1.2
- Religious building.caption
- The monastery and the village of Narek
- Religious building.map_type
- Turkey
- Religious building.map_size
- 300
- Religious building.location
- Yemişlik, Gevaş district, Van Province, Turkey
- Religious building.religious_affiliation
- Armenian Apostolic Church
- Religious building.functional_status
- Demolished
- Religious building.architecture
- yes
- Religious building.architecture_style
- Armenian
- Religious building.groundbreaking
- 10th century
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ruins
- Religion
- Armenian Apostolic Church
- Country
- Ottoman Empire
- Located in
- Gevaş district
- Image
- Narekavank.jpg
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- Commons category
- Narekavank
- inception
- 0901-01-17
- architectural style
- Armenian architecture
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1915-00-00
- native label
- Նարեկավանք
- located in/on physical feature
- Eastern Anatolia Region
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- 10th-11th centuries
- Modern period
- Architecture
- Destruction and ruins
- See also
- References
Narekavank (, "Monastery of Narek", Western Armenian: Nareg) was a tenth-century Armenian monastery in the historic province of Vaspurakan, near the southern shores of Lake Van, in present-day Gevaş district in Van Province in eastern Turkey. The monastery was one of the most prominent in medieval Armenia and had a major school. The poet Gregory of Narek (Grigor Narekatsi) notably flourished at the monastery. It was abandoned in 1915 during the Armenian genocide, and reportedly demolished around 1951. A mosque now stands on its location.
==History==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Narekavank” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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