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SAINT ASTVATSATSIN CHURCH OF KOT OR KOTAVANQ<\/strong> <\/p>\n It was located on the western bank in Nerqin Getashen village of Martuni region of RA. The main literature:<\/p>\n S. Barkhudaryan, Archive of Armenian lithography, chap 4, Yerevan, 1973 (In Armenian).<\/p>\n The monuments of Medieval Armenia. The cross stones of IX-XIII centuries, Yerevan,1984 (In Armenian).<\/p>\n S. Orbelyan, The History of Armenia, Yerevan, 1986 (In Armenian).<\/p>\n S. Mnacakanyan, The Armenian Architecture School of Syuniq, Yerevan, 1960 (In Armenian).<\/p>\n \n\t\t
\nRegion Gegharquniq
\nVillage Nerqin Getashen
\nstate index 4.66.7<\/p>\n
\nThe church was built by Grigor Supan II- the master of Gegharquniq, son of the prince Vasak Gabur and Mariam Bagratuni, in 851-901.
\nOutwardly it is rectangular, inwardly 3 niches, with vaulted rectangular cross-wing from the west and has two stored vestries in four corners (the upstairs were caches) it is a domed structure. The entrances of the eastern vestries were built with the northern and southern apses and the entrances of the western vestries \u2013with rectangular cross -wings. On the eastern facade there are two \u201cArmenian niches\u201d of triangular cut.
\nIt was built from roughly hewn and fractured basalt, some joining parts were built from huge smoothly hewn stones.
\nThe entrances are from the west and south, they have walled yard built according to the inscription before the church. It shows that there was a monument before the foundation of the mentioned church. There are monastical cells and the ruins of other buildings. The dome and roofs are destroyed.
\nInside the entrance of the south-eastern vestry, is standing a cross stone of the first half of 9th century instead of tympanum, devoted to the memory of Vardan Mamikonyan. On 2 sides of the horizontal wings of the cross is written: SAINT VARDAN NAHATAK QI.<\/strong>
\nThere was an expanded constructional inscription which was achieved us by Steqan Orbelyan.
\nThe plan was one of the achievements of the architectural school of Syuniq.
\nAt the end of 1980\u2019s the restoration of the church was undertaken and started by the general department of the protection and utilization of the monuments. The walls and some part of the dome were reconstructed, however the activities were suspended from 1990.\n<\/p>\n