Narekavank
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Creators: Gabriel Mckee
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 27, 2019 11:02 AM
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History
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.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/586635001
38.2968002, 42.9281875
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of mosque at Yemişlik (modern)
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- Նարեկավանք (Narekavank: Armenian, AD 850 - Present)
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mosque, abbey (monastery)
- See Further:
Pleiades
Gabriel Mckee, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Narekavank: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/586635001> [accessed: 01 October 2023]
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