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Long lost Armenian monastery found inside a rock!

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Partial views of the south-western chapel of Tzarakar Monastery

The discovery The renown ancient Armenian monastery complex ‘Tzarakar’ has been discovered near the village of Chukurayva, 5 kms south-east of the fortified town of Kechror, modern-day Turkey (the old Gabeghiank district, Ayrarat province of Greater Armenia). What remains of it are the interior cut-in-rock structures, the exterior buildings are irretrievably lost. The monastery...

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