Narekavank

religious building · 850 AD – 2100 AD

Narekavank, or Narek Monastery, was a tenth-century Armenian monastery near the southern shore of Lake Van. It was a major monastic center, and the mystical poet Grigor Narekatsi (951-1003) studied and resided there. The monastery was abandoned and demolished in the 20th century.

Coordinates

38.29680, 42.92819

Also known as

Նարեկավանք (hy)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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