Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Gandzasar monastery" in English language version.
...the church and monastery of Gandzasar, in the village of Vank, whose benefactor, Levon Hairabedian, a native son, sponsored the weddings of 700 couples in 2008. He also funded the renovation of the church dome and the construction of a seminary next to it.
Caucasian Albanian Church became a diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church and the name Aghvan survived only in the name of this diocese associated with the church and monastery complex of Gandzasar, which was the See of the Catholicate of the Caucasian Albanian Church.
For that reason, the thirteenth-century gavits are excellent indicators of architectural inventiveness, and with forms imitated from adjacent cultures, also indicators of cultural interaction. Other, better preserved, examples known from Geghard (before 1225), Haric' (ca. 1224), and Gandzasar (1261) were equipped with elaborated muqarnas vaults similar to the vault at Astvatsankal and perhaps executed by the same masons. The early-thirteenth-century muqarnas vault of the gavit at the Church of the Apostles at Ani also has similar geometry.
Well, say historians in Baku, up until the 19th century the church at Gandzasar was the seat of one of Christendom's more obscure bishoprics, the "catholicosate of Albania". In the first millennium, Albania was not only a Balkan country but also a realm in the eastern Caucasus. Those sculpted men who built the church and hundreds of others like it were not Armenians at all, the Baku scholars have argued, but Albanians. And the Albanians, they add, were the ancestors of the Azerbaijanis. This is nonsense. According to most historians, the Albanians, a Caucasian people first recorded by the Romans, simply disappeared around the 10th century and became assimilated with their neighbours. All that remained was a territorial name, which the eastern branch of the Armenian church took for its diocese.
Five hundred and sixty couples ended up being married either at St. Ghazanchetsots church or the 13th century Gandzasar monastery, not far from Vank.
Առաջին վերաբացված տաճարը Գանձասարի վանքն էր (1989-ին), որն էլ սկզբում դարձել է թեմի առաջնորդանիստը (ներկայումս Շուշիի Ղազանչեցոց Ս. Ամենափրկիչ եկեղեցին է)։
Արցախի թեմի առաջնորդանիստ Ղազանչեցոց Ս. Ամենափրկիչ մայր տաճարը (XIX դ.): ... 1998-ին ավարտվել է եկեղեցու զանգակատան նորոգումը և մեծ հանդիսությամբ օծվել հուլիսի 19-ին, որպես հայ առաքելական եկեղեցու Արցախի թեմի առաջնորդանիստ՝ Պարգև արքեպիսկոպոս Մարտիրոսյանի առաջնորդությամբ:
The couples were married in the churches of Gandzasar and Kazanchetsots in Shushi.
«Когда Левон Айрапетян ремонтировал в 2000-2002 годах притвор церкви, когда выкладывал пол церкви плиткой, когда ремонтировал алтарь церкви, где были архитекторы?» – задается риторическим вопросом отец Григор.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)Five hundred and sixty couples ended up being married either at St. Ghazanchetsots church or the 13th century Gandzasar monastery, not far from Vank.
For that reason, the thirteenth-century gavits are excellent indicators of architectural inventiveness, and with forms imitated from adjacent cultures, also indicators of cultural interaction. Other, better preserved, examples known from Geghard (before 1225), Haric' (ca. 1224), and Gandzasar (1261) were equipped with elaborated muqarnas vaults similar to the vault at Astvatsankal and perhaps executed by the same masons. The early-thirteenth-century muqarnas vault of the gavit at the Church of the Apostles at Ani also has similar geometry.
Гандзасарский монастырь получил новую жизнь в 2000-2002 гг. благодаря средствам московского бизнесмена Левона Айрапетяна.