Amaras Monastery

Amaras Monastery, accounted as the oldest monastery in Nagorno-Karabakh, is located near the village of Sos in the Martuni region of Karabakh ["Artsakh: A Photographic Journey" by Hrair Khatcherian, p.6. OCLC|37785365] . The oldest church at the monastery was built by St. Gregory the Illuminator in 310, but the main church is a more recent addition, constructed from white stone, it was built in the 19th century, and is named St. Gregoris (in honor of the grandson of St. Gregory the Illuminator). In addition, Mesrop Mashtots, the inventor of the Armenian alphabet taught theology and his new alphabet at Amaras.Although the Monastery of Amaras is surrounded by high walls, which were used to keep invaders out, the complex has been repeatedly plundered and rebuilt for the past 1,500 years; its most recent brush with disaster was in 1992, when enemy troops briefly held it.

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