Church of St Gregory - Ani, Turkey
This is the third video of six about this beautiful medieval city we visited in Turkey!
Probably the most beautiful place we've been in our trip!
The Chuch of St Gregory in Ani, Eastern Turkey
As Travels With Sheila walked through the ruins of Ani, what appeared to be a church half buried in a hole materialized. How in the heck were we going to get down there? Steps, of course, led to The Church of St. Gregory.
The well-preserved Church of St. Gregory was constructed and commissioned by a wealthy Armenian merchant, Tigran Honents. Ergo, the proper name of this church is Church of St. Gregory of Tigran Honents. Built of orange-colored tufa stones from Ani, the exterior is decorated with ornate carvings of real and imaginary animals added when Ani was taken by the Turks.
Depending on what research I could find, Tigran Honents was either Georgian or Armenian. The Georgian inscriptions carved on the outside seem to go along with the Georgian argument. The incredible frescoes inside? Watch the video.
Church of St Gregory of Tigran Honents - Ani, Turkey
This is the fifth video and almost the last one, about this beautiful medieval city we visited in Turkey!
Enjoy :)
Gagkashen church (English)
The film is about Gagkashen Church. It stands in medieval Armenian city of Ani occupied by Turkey since 1920. The film tells viewers about its history and gradual destruction also showing its 3D reconstruction.
Script by Samvel Karapetyan
Edited by Tiran Karapetyan
Gagkashen church (with English subtitles)
The film is about Gagkashen Church. It stands in medieval Armenian city of Ani occupied by Turkey since 1920. The film tells viewers about its history and gradual destruction also showing its 3D reconstruction.
Script by Samvel Karapetyan
Edited by Tiran Karapetyan
Music by Aidin Davoudi
Ani Archaeological Site (Turkey)
This is the second video of six about this beautiful medieval city we visited in Turkey!
Probably the most beautiful place we've been in our trip!
Ani in Kars, Turkey. The former Bagratid Armenian capital city
Ani is a former city in Eastern Anatolia, which at its peak served as the capital of the Armenian Empire under the Bagratid Dynasty, rivaling the most powerful cities of the Middle East. The archaeological site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site
.
#turkey #armenia #history #bagratid #travel #ig_armenia #ig_turkey #wanderer #wanderlust #dronestagram #dronephotography #instatravel #instatraveling #travelphotography #travelgram #bbctravel #lonelyplanet #architecture #armenian #church #ani #unesco #unescoworldheritage
Ani Cathedral - Virtual Reconstruction
Virtual Reconstruction of The Cathedral of Ani, Historic Armenia © Hayem
The church of St Gregory of Tigran HonentsSpiritual song Open for us(Nelly Gasparyan)
This church, finished in 1215, is the best-preserved monument at Ani. It was built during the rule of the Zakarids and was commissioned by the wealthy Armenian merchant Tigran Honents.Its plan is of a type called a domed hall. In front of its entrance are the ruins of a narthex and a small chapel that are from a slightly later period. The exterior of the church is spectacularly decorated. Ornate stone carvings of real and imaginary animals fill the spandrels between blind arcade that runs around all four sides of the church. The interior contains an important and unique series of frescoes cycles that depict two main themes. In the eastern third of the church is depicted the Life of Saint Gregory the Illuminator, in the middle third of the church is depicted the Life of Christ. Such extensive fresco cycles are rare features in Armenian architecture – it is believed that these ones were executed by Georgian artists, and the cycle also includes scenes from the life of St. Nino, who converted the Georgians to Christianity. In the narthex and its chapel survive fragmentary frescoes that are more Byzantine in style.
Armenian church Khtzkonk in Digor, Turkey
This beautiful monastery, also known as Beşkilise (Turkish for Five Churches), was spread out over three spurs of rock within a gorge about 25km south-west of Ani and a little to the west of the village of Digor
.
The monastery had a total of five churches, all of them domed and carefully built out of finely cut stone. The churches were called: Saint Karapet, Saint Astucacin, Saint Stephanos, Saint Gregory, and Saint Sargis. Only the church of Saint Sargis is standing today. They were built sometime in the 10th century .
The monastery remained in use until 1920, when the remaining Armenian population of the Kars region was expelled by the Turks. After this, the area became a restricted military zone that was closed to visitors. When the monastery was next visited by historians, in 1959, only one church, Saint Sargis, remained standing - and it was seriously damaged. It was reported that villagers at that time said the churches had been blown up by Turkish soldiers. The Kurdish inhabitants of nearby Digor still say the same thing today
.
.
#turkey #digor #kars #travel #traveler #travelgram #instatravel #wanderer #wanderlust #ig_armenia #ig_turkey #travelphotography #photography #architecture #history #armenian #ermeni #bbctravel #lonelyplanet #nature #photo #guardiantravelsnaps #drone #dronestagram #video
A stroll through Ani Cathedral Մայր Աստվածածին
A very moving prayer service being delivered by Armenians in the Mother Cathedral in the medieval Armenian city of Ani, now found in the Republic of Turkey.
Ani is perhaps the most prominent Armenian city from medieval times. Though its history goes back to the period of antiquity, it reached its zenith only in the tenth century AD, when the Armenian king, Ashot III Bagratuni, proclaimed it his capital. He along with his successors fortified the city and embellished the city with churches, cathedrals, chapels, inns, almshouses and other civil structures. So many ecclesiastical buildings were constructed that Ani soon became known as the city of 1,001 churches. The most renowned church which has survived is that of the Mother Cathedral (Mayr Katoghike), whose foundation was laid by King Smbat II Bagratuni and was completed during the reign of his successor King Gagik I (989-1020) by the architect Trdat.
The city's radiance, however, was cut short when it was sacked by the Seljuk Turks in 1064. The cross was brought down and the cathedral was converted into a mosque. The city lost its luster in the following centuries after countless invasions and interminable warfare.
The city now stands desolate and remains in ruins, very little having survived.
Enjoy the video. Comments of an insulting nature will not be tolerated and will be promptly removed so please be respectful to others.
Matthew Karanian at the Armenian Cathedral of Mren
Matthew Karanian, author of the groundbreaking book 'Historic Armenia After 100 Years,' speaks about the Armenian Cathedral of Mren, in Western Armenia. This significant cathedral is featured in the book. Website: HistoricArmeniaBook.com
Walking to the St. Eghegnavor church in Chankli
Chankli was an Armenian village in Kars province, now it's population is Kurdish.
There is a big Armenian church in it.
Tao-Klarjeti (ტაო--კლარჯეთი) Part 1
wikipedia:
Tao-Klarjeti (Georgian: ტაო--კლარჯეთი, Armenian: Տայք-Կղարջք) is the term conventionally used in modern history writing to describe the historic south-western Georgian principalities, now forming part of north-eastern Turkey and divided among the provinces of Erzurum, Artvin, Ardahan and Kars. Tao and Klarjeti were oriKingdom of Armenia ginally only the names of the two most important provinces of the Georgian lands that stretched from the Georgian Gorge (Turk. Gürcü Boğazı) in the south to the Lesser Caucasus in the north.
Tao-Klarjeti corresponds to the province of Tayk and the canton of Kgharjk of the Kingdom of Armenia. [1]
Historically, the area comprised the following provinces: West of the Arsiani Mountains (Turk. Yalnızçam Dağları) were Tao/Tayk, Klarjeti and Shavsheti, to the east lay Samtskhe, Erusheti, Javakheti, Artaani and Kola. The landscape is characterised by mountains and the river-systems of the Chorokhi (Turk. Çoruh) and the Mtkvari (Turk. Kura). Tao-Klarjeti's geographical position between the great Empires of the East and the West, and the fact that one branch of the Silk Road ran through its territory, meant that it was subject to a constant stream of diverging influences. In the 9th-11th centuries, Tao-Klarjeti was ruled by the Iberian Bagratids, and the region played a crucial role in the unification of the Georgian principalities into a single feudal state in 1008. Alongside the magnificent nature, the architectural monuments of Tao-Klarjeti (churches, monasteries, bridges and castles) function as tourist attractions today, but many monuments are endangered, since nothing is done for their preservation. There have also been cases of deliberate destruction (for instance in Opiza and Tbeti).
The history of the region goes back to 3000 BC, i.e. the Bronze Age known as the Kura-Araxes culture. In the 1st millennium BC, the area was predominantly inhabited by various proto-Georgian people which was divided into the kingdoms of Diaokhi, Colchis and Iberia.
In ca. 302 BC, these territories were absorbed into the ancient Kingdom of Iberia under the king of Pharnavaz I and since then it was occupied and annexed by various countries.
Contested between Iberia and Armenia throughout the following centuries, the region was invaded and completely destroyed by the Arabs in the 7th century.
The new era began in Tao-Klarjeti in 813, when the Georgian prince (erismtavari) Ashot I of the Bagrationi family made Klarjeti a base in his struggle against the Arab occupation. Recognizing the Byzantine suzerainty, he received a title of κουροπαλάτης and established the Principality of the Georgians known to the Byzantines as the Kouropalatate (Kuropalatinate) of Iberia. Ashot fought the Arabs from there, gradually liberating the surrounding lands of Tao, Kola, Artaani and Shavsheti, along with a few other lesser lands, from the Arab dominance. He encouraged resettlement of Georgians in these lands, and patronized monastic life initiated by the prominent Georgian ecclesiastic figure Grigol Khandzteli (Gregory of Khandzta; 759--861) in Klarjeti. For a long time the region became a cultural safe-house and one of the most important religious centers of Georgia.
Ashot's successors continued fighting for the Kartlian lands, contested also by the Abkhazian dynasty of western Georgia (Egrisi), the Arab emirs of Tbilisi and even by Kakhetian (kingdom in eastern Georgia) and Armenian rulers. However, internal feuds, not infrequent in the principality, were an important obstacle. A civil war following the assassination of David I (876--881) brought the victory of Adarnase I (881--923) over his major rival, Nasra, David's murderer, allowing him to be crowned as King of the Georgians in 888. During the reign of Adarnase's son David II (923--937) the Georgians had also to defend against the Byzantine aggression, a problem they seem to have successfully managed. However, the Bagrationi dynasty failed to maintain the integrity of their kingdom which was actually divided between the three branches of the family with the main branch retaining Tao and the title of King of the Kartvelians (Georgians), and another controlling Klarjeti and nominally recognizing the sovereignty of the king...
The Mysterious Ruins at Ani in Kars,Turkey
The City Of Ani
Ani ruins, 25 August, 2018, Part 1
Largely forgotten by the 17th century (my mistake, I said 18th century in the recording).
Read more about the ancient city of Ani here:
Cultural GENOCIDE in MOUSH by Turkey
The plain of Muş was historically part of the Armenian province of Daron-Duruperan.[2] and the mountains on its southern border formed the boundary between Greater Armenia and Syria,
Muş and Sason were the scene of clashes between Armenians and Kurds in the late 19th century.
Among the historical sites of the Mush province are two of the holiest Armenian sites:
the Saint Karapet Monastery, which was founded in the 4th century by Saint Gregory the Illuminator and kept the relices of Saint John the Baptist. It was destroyed to its foundations by the Turkish army after the Armenian Genocide.
the Holy Apostles Monastery, a medieval monastery housing the relics of two of the Apostles near the town of Mush (also destroyed after 1915)
KAYSERI: THE CHURCH OF SAINT GREGORY THE ILLUMINATOR
KAYSERI:
THE CHURCH OF SAINT GREGORY THE ILLUMINATOR
(Surp Krikor Lusavoriç Kilisesi)