Heritage · church reattributed
Surb Khach (Holy Cross) Cathedral, Kars
Aşık Paşa Camii (modern Turkish renaming).
Kars · Armenian heritage
· built 932-937
· 1920
· turkey
Tenth-century Armenian church built under the Bagratid kings of Vanand. Russian Imperial Kars 1878-1918; First Republic Armenian Kars 1918-20; reverted to Turkey under the Treaty of Kars of 1921. Converted to a mosque in 1993. Architectural historians have used the building as a comparator for Ani.
Tenth-century Armenian church built under the Bagratid kings of Vanand. Russian Imperial Kars 1878-1918; First Republic Armenian Kars 1918-20; reverted to Turkey under the Treaty of Kars of 1921. Converted to a mosque in 1993. Architectural historians have used the building as a comparator for Ani.