Mastara Church of St. Hovhannes St. Hovhannes Church at Mastara; St. John Church at Mastara, the temple in Mastara Attributed to Gregory Vanakan Cruciform churches Religious buildings Stone crosses Temples Church of St. John in Mastara, late 6th century, in the Taleen district. A sub-dome square, with apses extending on its four sides, culminates in an imposing dome that governs the whole of the church’s interior. Four large squinches in combination with overhanging arches provide a solid foundation for the huge octahedral drum of the dome. Its architectural conception heralds another stage in the development of simple cruciform compositions. Its main merit is the interior, and of course the mighty monolithic outward volume. Mastara derives its name from Gregory the Illuminator, who brought back from Caesaria the relics of John the Baptist, one fragment of which he enshrined beneath the church site: Mas (a piece) Tara (I buried). The church was closed in 1935 and used as the collective farm storehouse until it was reopened in 1993. 891 CE 1982 Images Digital Tiffs and jp2s A-0029 Parsegian, V.L.. Armenian Architecture (Zug, Switzerland, IDC, 1980) Armenian Mastara village, T'alin Region, Republic of Armenia 6th or 7th centuries CE Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,, Troy, NY; Armenian Educational Council
Mastara Church of St. Hovhannes
St. Hovhannes Church at Mastara; St. John Church at Mastara, the temple in Mastara
Attributed to Gregory Vanakan
Cruciform churches
Religious buildings
Stone crosses
Temples
Church of St. John in Mastara, late 6th century, in the Taleen district. A sub-dome square, with apses extending on its four sides, culminates in an imposing dome that governs the whole of the church’s interior. Four large squinches in combination with overhanging arches provide a solid foundation for the huge octahedral drum of the dome. Its architectural conception heralds another stage in the development of simple cruciform compositions. Its main merit is the interior, and of course the mighty monolithic outward volume. Mastara derives its name from Gregory the Illuminator, who brought back from Caesaria the relics of John the Baptist, one fragment of which he enshrined beneath the church site: Mas (a piece) Tara (I buried). The church was closed in 1935 and used as the collective farm storehouse until it was reopened in 1993.
891 CE
1982
Images
Digital
Tiffs and jp2s
A-0029
Parsegian, V.L.. Armenian Architecture (Zug, Switzerland, IDC, 1980)
Armenian
Mastara village, T'alin Region, Republic of Armenia
6th or 7th centuries CE
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,, Troy, NY; Armenian Educational Council