The monastery of Geghard contains a number of churches and tombs, most of them cut into the rock, which illustrate the very peak of Armenian medieval architecture. The complex of medieval buildings is ...

Armenia's ancient borders were once much ... One of my favorites is the Geghard Monastery, whose first buildings date to the middle of the 4th century. Geghard is a holy, thin place that still ...

which swoops a whopping 5,800 meters up to the 9th-century mountaintop monastery over a clover-green gully. Geghard is arguably the crown jewel of medieval Armenian architecture, its chapels ...

UNESCO World Heritage site Geghard Monastery, an hour’s drive from the capital, Yerevan, is a testament to Armenia’s spiritual history and architectural prowess. Known as Airivank, or ‘Monas ...

The monastery of Geghard contains a number of churches and tombs, most of them cut into the rock, which illustrate the very peak of Armenian medieval architecture. The complex of medieval buildings is ...

Azerbaijanis consider the Armenian Amaras monastery complex in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) as Caucasian Albanian, “Geghard” Scientific Analytical Foundation states in an article. The latter reads as ...

But back to the subject of monasteries, there is Haghartsin, embedded in the green landscape of the north, the monastery Noravank in the south, and Geghard in central Armenia. In Geghard ...

The original structure, completed in 77 AD, is considered to be the best-known symbol of pre-Christian Armenia serving as a central shrine to it. The Geghard Monastery complex is high on a hill ...