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Holy Saviour's monastery of Yerazgavors

Akyaka, Turkey · built 801

Holy Saviour's monastery of Yerazgavors
Holy Saviour's monastery of Yerazgavors. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Yerazgavorsi Surb Amenaprkitchi Vank (Holy Saviour of All) is an Armenian monastery in the village of Çetindurak (previously called Başsüregel) in the Kars Province of present-day Turkey. This corresponds to the Shirakavan settlement of Historical Armenia, also known by its older name of Yerazgavors, developed into a small town in the mid-ninth century AD. It was located about 25 km Northeast of Ani, the capital of the medieval Bagratid (Bagratuni) Armenian Kingdom and ceased functioning as a monastery in 1920 after the Armenian genocide.

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