Vorotnavank
Sign in to saveVorotnavank () is a monastic complex located along a ridge overlooking the Vorotan gorge, between the villages of Vaghatin and Vorotan, about 14 km east of Sisian in the Syunik Province of Armenia. The complex is surrounded by a high stone wall for defense against foreign invasions and once housed workshops, stores, a seminary, resort, cemetery and an alms-house. A pillar stood in the yard of the monastery symbolizing that there were monks entering into religious service and kings inaugurated at this location. Hovhan Vorotnetsi (1315-1398), an Armenian medieval philosopher and theologian as we
Key facts
- Religious building.building_name
- Vorotnavank Որոտնավանք
- Religious building.image
- Vorotnavank 205.JPG
- Religious building.image_size
- 275 px
- Religious building.caption
- The monastic complex of Vorotnavank.
- Religious building.map_type
- Armenia#Syunik
- Religious building.map_size
- 275
- Religious building.location
- On a promontory overlooking the Vorotan gorge, between the villages of Vaghatin and Vorotan, Syunik Province,
- Religious building.religious_affiliation
- Armenian Apostolic Church
- Religious building.architecture
- yes
- Religious building.architecture_style
- Armenian
- Religious building.year_completed
- In use from the 10th-15th centuries S. Stepanos c. 1000 S. Karapet c. 1007
- Religious building.specifications
- yes
- Religious building.dome_quantity
- 1 (rebuilt after its collapse in the 1931 earthquake)
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- Architecture
- Surp Stepanos Church
- Surp Karapet Church
- Destruction
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Vorotnavank () is a monastic complex located along a ridge overlooking the Vorotan gorge, between the villages of Vaghatin and Vorotan, about 14 km east of Sisian in the Syunik Province of Armenia. The complex is surrounded by a high stone wall for defense against foreign invasions and once housed workshops, stores, a seminary, resort, cemetery and an alms-house. A pillar stood in the yard of the monastery symbolizing that there were monks entering into religious service and kings inaugurated at this location. Hovhan Vorotnetsi (1315-1398), an Armenian medieval philosopher and theologian as well as the founder of Tatev Vardapetaran University lived and worked at the monastery.
== Architecture ==
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