Heritage · monastery intact
Sevanavank Monastery
Lake Sevan & basin · Armenian heritage
· built 874
Medieval Armenian monastery on a peninsula on the western shore of Lake Sevan. Founded by Princess Mariam, daughter of King Ashot I. The two surviving 9th-c. churches are among the earliest standing post-Arab-conquest Armenian buildings.
Medieval Armenian monastery on a peninsula on the western shore of Lake Sevan. Founded by Princess Mariam, daughter of King Ashot I. The two surviving 9th-c. churches are among the earliest standing post-Arab-conquest Armenian buildings.