Sanahin Monastery
Sign in to savecultural heritage monument of Armenia
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Vinony files it under Buildings and structures in Lori Province, Christian monasteries established in the 10th century and Christian monasteries in Armenia.
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Key facts
- Affiliation
- Armenian Apostolic Church
- Location
- Sanahin , Lori Province , Armenia
- Style
- Armenian
- Groundbreaking
- 10th century
- Type
- Cultural
- Criteria
- ii, iv
- Designated
- 1996 (20th session )
- Reference no
- 777-002
- Region
- Western Asia
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- monastery
- Religion
- Armenian Apostolic Church
- Country
- Armenia
- Located in
- Alaverdi
- Area
- 2.65
- Location
- Sanahin
- Dedicated to
- Jesus
- Image
- Սանահին64.JPG
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- native label
- Սանահինի վանական համալիր
- diocese
- Diocese of Gougark
- Commons category
- Sanahin Monastery
- architectural style
- Armenian architecture
- inception
- 0901-01-17
- directions
- Սանահին թաղամասի կենտր. բարձրադիր մասում
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Encyclopedic overview
Sanahin Monastery (Armenian: Սանահին վանք, romanized: Sanahin vank') is an Armenian monastery founded in the 10th century in Sanahin in the Lori Province of Armenia.
The name Sanahin literally translates from Armenian as 'this one is older than that one', presumably representing a claim to being an older monastery than the neighbouring Haghpat Monastery, located about 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) to the east, with which it forms a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The two villages and their monasteries are similar in many ways, and lie in plain view of each other on a dissected plateau formation, separated by a deep crack formed by a small river flowing into the Debed river.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sanahin Monastery” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.