Suppression of the Catholicosate of Aghtamar
The 10th-c. Armenian Catholicosate of Aghtamar on Lake Van was suppressed in 1895 in the wake of the Hamidian massacres, ending almost a millennium of continuous ecclesiastical institution at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross of Aghtamar. The cathedral itself was preserved physically and was restored as a Turkish state museum in 2007, without cross or liturgy until a one-off mass in 2010.
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The 10th-c. Armenian Catholicosate of Aghtamar on Lake Van was suppressed in 1895 in the wake of the Hamidian massacres, ending almost a millennium of continuous ecclesiastical institution at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross of Aghtamar. The cathedral itself was preserved physically and was restored as a Turkish state museum in 2007, without cross or liturgy until a one-off mass in 2010. The atlas classifies this as a declaration event in 1895 with major severity. It is not flagged as an atrocity record in the database.
The event is linked to Ottoman Empire, Van, Aghtamar Island. No casualty or displacement range is encoded for this event.
The seeded citation trail currently points to Hayk D. Davtyan, Rouben Paul Adalian.
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