Iran /
Azarbayejan-e Gharbi /
Maku /
Dzor-Dzor - Armenian monastery
World / Iran / Azarbayejan-e Gharbi / Maku , 9 km from center (ماكو) World / Iran / West Azarbaijan
The Chapel of Dzordzor (Armenian: Ծոր Ծորի Սուրբ Աստվածածնի մատուռ, Persian: کلیسای زور زور), is part of an Armenian monastery located in Maku County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran, on Zangmar River near the village of Baron. The monastery had its heyday in the fourteenth century before being abandoned and destroyed in the early seventeenth century, when Shah Abbas I decided to displace the local Armenians. The Chapel of Holy Mother of God is the only part of the monastery that still stands today. The construction of this chapel cross surmounted in the center of a drum dome dates back to the 9th to 14th centuries. In agreement with the Armenian Apostolic Church, the building was relocated 600 meters by the Iranian authorities in 1987-1988, following the decision to build a dam on the Zangmar River, to avoid being inundated in the dam reservoir. The chapel is on the World Heritage List of UNESCO since July 6, 2008, alongside St. Thaddeus and St. Stepanos monasteries.
Categories: temple, christianity, place with historical importance, monastery, Armenian Apostolic church, place of worship
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_of_Dzordzor
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 39°11'19"N 44°28'32"E
- Surb Hakob of Akori - Armenian monastery & cemetery 66 km
- Spitak monastery 99 km
- Adır (Lim) Island 104 km
- Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin 110 km
- Khtzkonk monastery 163 km
- Church Kamrak Vank ( St.Thomas) 164 km
- Horomos monastic complex 165 km
- Kes 295 km
- Ruines of Surb Nishan monastery 646 km
- Սիս / Sis (Sso Berd) 781 km
- Barun Dam & Lake 2 km
- çirkin dağ 11 km
- Aghdash 17 km
- Maku free zone investment Industrial Park 18 km
- Danali Dam 21 km
- SH. Ganbari Dam .lake 21 km
- Hesaar plateau 35 km
- Siyahgan Volcanic Field 38 km
- Doğubayazıt District 63 km
- Ağrı Province 98 km