Paghkatsis / Tetrtsikhe /Akçakale
Turkey /
Kars /
Arpacay /
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/ Turkey
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/ Arpacay
church, ruins, monastery, Armenian Apostolic church
Paghkatsis monastery (Armenian: Պաղկացիս վանք) or Tetrtsikhe (Georgian: თეთრციხის, meaning: White church) or Akjakale (Turkish: Akçakale meaning: White Fortress) - medieval Armenian monastery named after the nearest settlement and district of Paghkatsis known also from Georgian archives as Palakatsio (Georgian:პალაკაციო) from this name also comes one of the Armenian names of Lake Childir (along with Tzovak-Hyusiso). Even slighte look to the ruins uncovers common characteristics of Armenian architecture of IV-IXX c. A.D. widely spread in nearest Vanand, Shirak Ararat valley and elsewhere. Obvieusly this church was also subjecred to reconstruction by Georgians, combined with addition of construction inscriptions in Georgian, of course with annihilation of older Armenian inscriptions. There are numerous examples how Georgian restorators use new names for the temples. Victims of that so-called "restorations" falled: "Oshkavank" that became "Oshki", Khakhuvank - Khakhuli, Ishkhanavank - Ishani, Chordvank Chordovani and so on...
Frankly, rizing a depressing feeling, that someone trying to impose a notorious complex of smallness on the beautiful people of Georgia, when there is a need to appropriate everything alien in order to seem more than you really are.
geohistory.humanities.tsu.ge/images/SHROMEBI/SHROMEBI-1...
Frankly, rizing a depressing feeling, that someone trying to impose a notorious complex of smallness on the beautiful people of Georgia, when there is a need to appropriate everything alien in order to seem more than you really are.
geohistory.humanities.tsu.ge/images/SHROMEBI/SHROMEBI-1...
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 41°4'43"N 43°17'5"E
- ANTON MARTKOPELI, GVTAEBIS MONASTERY. 163 km
- Khobi Monastery 181 km
- Spaso-Preobrazhenskiy Nunnery 308 km
- St. George's Convent 331 km
- Saint Michael's Monastery 432 km
- Holy Iveron Nunnery 748 km
- Kiziltash Holy Stefano-Surozhskiy monastery 794 km
- Toplovskiy Nunnery 811 km
- Cliff Monastary 866 km
- Mangup Qale cave town 868 km
- Çıldır District 14 km
- Arpaçay District 20 km
- Amasia District 32 km
- Ardahan Province 33 km
- "Lake Arpi" National Park 35 km
- Javakheti 38 km
- Akhalkalaki District 41 km
- Ninotsminda 44 km
- Shirak province 54 km
- Kars Province 69 km
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