Noravank
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Noravank (, ) is a 13th-century Armenian monastery, located 122 km from Yerevan in a narrow gorge made by the Amaghu River, near the town of Yeghegnadzor in Armenia. The gorge is known for its tall, sheer, brick-red cliffs, directly across from the monastery. The monastery is best known for its two-storey Surb Astvatsatsin (Holy Mother of God) Church, which grants access to the second floor by way of a narrow stone-made staircase jutting out from the face of building.
Key facts
- Religious building.building_name
- Noravank
- Religious building.native_name
- Նորավանք
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- Noravank.JPG
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- Surb Astvatsatsin and Surb Karapet Churches with Surb Grigor's Chapel to the right, Noravank
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- Armenia#Vayots Dzor
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- yes
- Religious building.map_size
- 250
- Religious building.location
- Amaghu Valley, Vayots Dzor Province, Armenia
- Religious building.religious_affiliation
- Armenian Apostolic Church
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- yes
- Religious building.architecture_style
- Armenian
- Religious building.groundbreaking
- 1205
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Noravank Complex
- Surb Astvatsatsin Church
- Surb Karapet Church
- Surb Grigor Chapel
- Khachkars
- Nature
- Gallery
- References
- Additional sources
- External links
Noravank (, ) is a 13th-century Armenian monastery, located 122 km from Yerevan in a narrow gorge made by the Amaghu River, near the town of Yeghegnadzor in Armenia. The gorge is known for its tall, sheer, brick-red cliffs, directly across from the monastery. The monastery is best known for its two-storey Surb Astvatsatsin (Holy Mother of God) Church, which grants access to the second floor by way of a narrow stone-made staircase jutting out from the face of building.
The monastery is sometimes called Noravank at Amaghu, with Amaghu being the name of a small and nowadays abandoned village above the canyon, in order to distinguish it from Bgheno-Noravank, near Goris. In the 13th–14th centuries the monastery became a residence of Syunik's bishops and, consequently, a major religious and, later, cultural center of Armenia closely connected with many of the local seats of learning, especially with Gladzor's famed university and library.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Noravank” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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