Bekh Hermitage, Syunik, Armenia

Bekh Hermitage

Пустынь Бехи · Բեխի անապատ

Bekh Hermitage is a monastic complex dating to the 10th century, set in forest on the eastern slope of a mountain 4 km southeast of Kapan's Bekh district. In the 1620s it was rebuilt under Aristakes vardapet (archimandrite, a senior monastic rank).

The hermitage is in Syunik region, on the mountainside southeast of Kapan's Bekh district, about 192 km southeast of Yerevan in a straight line.

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Կապանի տարածաշրջան, Syunik
From Yerevan
~192 km southeast

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