Yeritsavank
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Yeritsavank is a monastic complex built up between the 5th and 11th centuries, standing on a plateau east of Artsvanik village in the Kapan region of Syunik. Tradition credits its founding to Yeritsak, metropolitan (senior bishop) of Syunik, in the 5th century.
The complex carries his name and marks a stretch of church building that continued for roughly six centuries on this site.
Yeritsavank sits in Syunik marz, east of Artsvanik village near Kapan, about 196 km east-southeast of Yerevan in a straight line.
Location
Facts
- Address
- Syunik
- From Yerevan
- ~196 km east-southeast
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