Varagavank' Monastery Religious buildings Holy Cross Monastery of Varag; Varagvank'; Varagay St. Nshan Vank'; S. Nsani Vank'; Monastery of the Seven Churches; Yedi kilise King Senekerim-Hovhannes of Vaspurakan Monasteries Churches Relics During their journey across Armenia at the end of the 3rd century, Sts. Gayane and Hrip'sime are said to have brought a fragment of the True Cross to Van. When they left Vaspurakan the relic was lost until the 7th century, when it was miraculously found on Varag mountain by a monk and taken to a hermitage that stood on the site of what was to become Varagavank monastery. Varagavank', formerly the richest and best known monastery of Vaspurakan, and the residence of the archbishop of Van. The monastery lay close to the southern slopes of Mt. Varag (now called Erek Dağı), north-east of Van city. The monastery flourished during the 17th and 18th centuries, after the wars between the Ottoman and Persian empires had been settled, but declined rapidly during the 19th century. Varagavank was destroyed on April 30th 1915, during the siege of Van. Images Digital Tiff; Jpeg2000 A-2183 Parsegian, V.L.. Armenian Architecture (Zug, Switzerland; IDC, 1980) Armenian Bakraçlı, Van region, Turkey 11th-13th centuries CE Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Armenian Educational Council
Varagavank' Monastery
Religious buildings
Holy Cross Monastery of Varag; Varagvank'; Varagay St. Nshan Vank'; S. Nsani Vank'; Monastery of the Seven Churches; Yedi kilise
King Senekerim-Hovhannes of Vaspurakan
Monasteries
Churches
Relics
During their journey across Armenia at the end of the 3rd century, Sts. Gayane and Hrip'sime are said to have brought a fragment of the True Cross to Van. When they left Vaspurakan the relic was lost until the 7th century, when it was miraculously found on Varag mountain by a monk and taken to a hermitage that stood on the site of what was to become Varagavank monastery. Varagavank', formerly the richest and best known monastery of Vaspurakan, and the residence of the archbishop of Van. The monastery lay close to the southern slopes of Mt. Varag (now called Erek Dağı), north-east of Van city. The monastery flourished during the 17th and 18th centuries, after the wars between the Ottoman and Persian empires had been settled, but declined rapidly during the 19th century. Varagavank was destroyed on April 30th 1915, during the siege of Van.
Images
Digital
Tiff; Jpeg2000
A-2183
Parsegian, V.L.. Armenian Architecture (Zug, Switzerland; IDC, 1980)
Armenian
Bakraçlı, Van region, Turkey
11th-13th centuries CE
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Armenian Educational Council