Holy Apostles - Armenian monastery

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  THE KING (guest)

  Arak'elots monastery was founded in the 4th century by Saint Gregory the Illuminator (Armenian: Սուրբ Գրիգոր Լուսավորիչ)to house various relics he received in Rome. Those relics (which included the left arms of Saint Peter and Saint Paul and right arm of the apostle Andrew) account for the monastery's name.However, it is likely that Arak'elots, as a monastery, was a mid-tenth century foundation: none of the surviving structures are older than that date. During the renewed rule of the Mamikoneans in the post-Byzantine period the monastery became a major cultural and religious centre of Taron.[1] The history of the monastery after the end of Mamikonean rule is mostly one of Muslim raids, massacres, brief periods of abandonment followed by a re-establishment of the monastic community, and short-lived revivals. Under Ottoman rule some stability returned and the fortunes of the monastery rose, but then declined again during the Ottoman-Persian wars of the 17th century. In the 1660s an earthquake damaged most of the buildings. Massacres took place in the mid-1890s, after which the congregation was reduced to only a prior and two or three monks. However, the continued presence of the relics at the monastery ensured that it was an important place of pilgrimage until the First World War. In 1915 the monastery was attacked and looted and the last prior, Yovhannes Vardapet Muratian, was murdered.

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  HANÇEPEKLİ (guest)

  Aslen MUŞ'luyum Doğma Büyüme AMED'liyim Sayın Aram ATEŞYAN Benim Mahalle Büyüğümdür.Kendisinden Ricam MUŞ'taki Kiliseleri Restore Ettirsin Sevgi ve Saygılarımla

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