Saint Sarkis Monastery of Gag
Avey Albanian temple (Azerbaijani: Avey məbədi) Early medieval architecture of the Caucasian Albania, represented by several churches, such as "free cross." When the community composition, they are at the same time, strongly differ on the specifics of the planning and spatial solutions. The most striking examples of this type - the church in the village Kabizdara (Zagatala region of Azerbaijan), in the village of Orta Zeyzit (Sheki region of Azerbaijan) and a church on the hill between the villages and Alpout Dash Salahli the Kazakh region of Azerbaijan. A third of the above churches due to its location dominates the surrounding area. It is interesting in its composition, because it consists of two churches (north and south), having a common wall. Furthermore, far from the bulk of the churches there is also a small chasovnya.Northern Church - rectangular room, floors are semi-cylindrical vault. Prayer hall is almost square, altar apse-Arched in terms of a small bemoy (1, s.214). South, domed church, the size of 4,90 x 5,80 m, has a rectangular outside and inside the cruciform plan. The longest, the eastern arm of the cross has a semicircular end, the remaining short-sleeve pryamougolnye.Ovalny in terms of the dome rests on the rectangle (2,7 x 2,2 m), formed by semicircular arches. Although the internal composition of the plan south of the church and reminded of the above church and Kabizdare Zeyzite Horta, but the external array is more correlated with the dome zalami.Obe church tower on a two-step pedestal and erected, probably sequentially. This is indicated by divergent vertical rows of masonry and joints on the east wall. The complex dates from the X-XI centuries (2, pp. 79). The mention of him in the work of the historian V. Bartsrberdtsi connects it to the fortress Gag, of which there is data in Kirakos Gandzak (3, pp. 15 7). The ruins of the castle walls to the south of the buildings, and possibly are the remnants of the Albanian fortress. Unfortunately, at present this monument, like most other unique monuments of the Albanian architecture, are in a war zone. The result of this are numerous traces of injuries on the facades of churches. However, this destruction seem insignificant compared with the elections held in 70-80-ies of the reconstructions of the Armenian scientists to falsify the historical origin of the monument, with the result that the church "has become" an alien element to it, a stone inscribed with the Armenian, never before there has not been seen .
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