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After accepting the rank of high priest, he left to enlighten the countries of Iberia and Aluank. He arrived in the ghavar of Haband and preached and admonished not to break the commandments of the Son of God. Here he began the building of a church in Amaras and hired workers and foremen to finish
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reclaimed the monastery in 1848. The monastery's church appears to have been severely damaged during the period of military occupation, to the extent that a new church had to be constructed on the site of the old one. This new church, dedicated to St. Grigoris, was built in 1858 and paid for by the
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Under the altar of the St. Grigoris church is a tomb chamber, reached at its western end by twin flights of steps. A blocked passage at its eastern end indicates that there was originally an entrance from that direction as well. The barrel-vaulted tomb chamber is 1.9 m wide, 3.75 m long, and 3.5 m
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it. After returning to Armenia, he consecrated and appointed instead of himself his son Vrtanes, filled with his father's virtues, who lived according to the teaching and punished and admonished all those who adhered to the heresy of idol-worship.
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in Jerusalem. In 489 Vachagan III the Pious, king of Caucasian Albania, renovated Amaras, restoring the church and constructing a new chapel for the remains of St. Grigoris. In later centuries, a church was built over this chapel-tomb.
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The demographics of the region have fluctuated sharply over time, but an Armenian presence has been recorded there off and on for centuries, and the hills are dotted with medieval Armenian churches, such as Amaras and
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was originally buried at the eastern end of the now-vanished St. Gregory Church. Archeologists think that the eastern entrance of the tomb, which is unusual for traditional church architecture, is based on the
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high. The upper half of the structure originally projected 1.5 to 2 m above ground level, but it is now entirely underground. Carved details date it stylistically to the 5th century.
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Amaras was later abandoned, and in the first half of the nineteenth century the monastery was used as a
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In the 5th century St. Mesrop Mashtots opened the first Armenian school in Artsakh at Amaras.
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Thomas De Waal/ The Caucasus: An Introduction/ Oxford University Press -2018, p.103- pp.312
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the monastery was reported to fall under Azerbaijani control on 20 September 2023.
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Amaras was the burial place of St. Gregory the Illuminator's grandson,
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Ancient, medieval, and historical Armenian churches and monasteries
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Movses Kaghankatvatsi. History of Aluank. Book I. Chapter XIV.
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The monastery was plundered in the thirteenth century by the
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Pavstos Byuzand. Armenian History. Yerevan. 1987. page 17
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Affiliation
Armenian Apostolic Church
Sos
Azerbaijan
Amaras Monastery is located in Azerbaijan
Geographic coordinates
39°41′02″N 47°03′25″E / 39.684°N 47.057°E / 39.684; 47.057
Style
Armenian
www.amaras.org
Armenian
Armenian
Khojavend District
Azerbaijan
breakaway state
Republic of Artsakh
Azerbaijan
Armenian Apostolic
Caucasian Albanian



Faustus Byuzand
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St. Gregory the Illuminator
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