Saint Thomas Monastery of Agulis

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Saint Thomas Monastery of Agulis - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 38°57′10″N 45°58′53″E / 38.95278°N 45.98139°E

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Saint Thomas Monastery of Agulis
Ագուլիսի Սուրբ Թովմա առաքյալ վանք or Ագուլիսի վանք
Saint Thomas Monastery of Agulis
Religion
Affiliation	Armenian Apostolic Church
Rite	Armenian Apostolic
Ecclesiastical or organizational status	yes
Status	Destroyed
Location
Location	Yuxarı Əylis, Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan
Shown within Azerbaijan
Geographic coordinates	38°57′10″N 45°58′53″E / 38.95278°N 45.98139°E / 38.95278; 45.98139
Architecture
Style	Armenian
Completed	4th century

Saint Thomas Monastery of Agulis (Armenian: Ագուլիսի Սուրբ Թովմա առաքյալ վանք) was an Armenian Apostolic monastery, located in the Yuxarı Əylis village of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. It was historically built in the Goghtn district of the historical Armenian province of Vaspurakan.^[1]

History

According to tradition, St. Thomas Monastery was founded by St. Bartholomew the Apostle in the 1st century, and his pupil, Kums (hy), was appointed its priest. It was probably a small chapel-like building that was rebuilt and expanded after the conversion of Armenia to Christianity. It was the centre of Goghtn parish, from the early Middle Ages to 1838. In the monastery there were some relics: right hand of Thomas the Apostle donated by Catholicos Yeprem I in 1821, relic of St. Gayané (fr) and right hand of Hakop Hayrapet. The monastery had a cemetery belonging to the 13th to 19th centuries. It was located about 250 m northeast of the complex.^[1]^[2]

Architecture

St. Thomas Monastery consisted of a temple, bell towers, a wall and auxiliary buildings. The church of the monastery was probably damaged by the earthquake of 1679 and in 1694 a completely new church was built, with polished basalt, reddish felsite, a seven-sided tabernacle on the inside and a dome-shaped basilica with four crosses.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Current status

In 1919, Turkish troops destroyed Agulis, massacred the Armenian population and looted the monastery, which was later abandoned and deserted.^[4]^[5]^[6] The monastery was still standing in the 1990s.^[7] Large structures in the monastery were in the process of being dismantled in February 2000.^[7] The complete destruction and erasure of the monastery was already complete by June 28, 2009.^[7] On May 15, 2014, a mosque was constructed on the place of the monastery complex.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c A. Tumanov (1892). "The Collection of Materials to Describe the Terrain and Tribes in the Caucasus". asbarez.com. Caucasus Educational Okrug-Chaykend (Getashen) school.
^ ^a ^b HOVHANNES HAKHNAZARIAN (2013). GOGHTAN DISTRICT (PDF). Yerevan: SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL OF RESEARCH ON ARMENIAN ARCHITECTURE (RAA) FOUNDATION.
^ Ավետիս Ավետիսյան (2020). "Մեղրու Փոքր թաղի Ս. Յովհաննէս Մկրտիչ եկեղեցու որմնանկարների շերտերը, ժամանակաշրջանն ու հեղինակների խնդիրը" (PDF). pj.asj-oa.am. Պատմա-բանասիրական հանդես. pp. 162–195.
^ Hovannisian, Richard G. (1982). The Republic of Armenia, Vol. II: From Versailles to London, 1919-1920. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 207–238. ISBN 0-520-04186-0.
^ Bert Vaux (2008). Zok: The Armenian dialect of Agulis. In between Paris and Fresno: Armenian studies in honor of Dickran Kouymjian. pp. 283–301. city of Agulis, located in southeastern Nakhichevan. Following the massacre of the Armenian population of Agulis by the Turkish army in 1919
^ Aliprandi, Emanuele (2016). The Story of Nakhijevan (PDF). Rome: MIA. ISBN 978-5-8948-1970-9. The most notorious massacre took place in Agulis where thousands of Armenians were slaughtered and the town, known from the Middle Ages as a center of trade and crafts, was wiped out. Recently, Azerbaijani writer Akram Aylisli evoked the Agulis massacre in his 'Stone Dreams' novel, which was met by defiance and smear campaign of the Azerbaijani authorities.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Khatchadourian, Lori; Smith, Adam T.; Ghulyan, Husik; Lindsay, Ian (2022). Silent Erasure: A Satellite Investigation of the Destruction of Armenian Heritage in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. Ithaca NY: Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies. pp. 38–39. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 September 2022.

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