Vagharshapat, Shoghakat Church

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Location:

Armenia, Amenayn Hayots’ Kat’oghikos Abraham G Kretats’i
geo:40.168045,44.304935
Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

3xx~ / unknown

Class:

Temple or sanctuary
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Identifiers:

vici:place=73896

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The present day church of Shoghakat is on the place of an earlier church of the 6th or 7th century which has not survived. The excavations uncovered the remains of a single-chamber church placed on a stepped platform, thperhaps a 4th-century memorial chapel.

See:

Arthur C. Headlam, Ecclesiastical sites in Isauria (Cilicia Trachea). Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, ‎ Published by the Council and sold on their behalf by Macmillan and Co (January 1, 1892)

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