Əbrəqunus

Əbrəqunus
Municipality
Əbrəqunus
Coordinates: 39°08′06″N 45°38′13″E
Country	Azerbaijan
Autonomous republic	Nakhchivan
District	Julfa
Population ^[citation needed]
• Total	2,747
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)

Əbrəqunus (Armenian: Ապրակունիս, romanized: Aprakunis)^[1] is a village and municipality in the Julfa District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 2,747.^{[citation needed]}

History

A medieval Armenian monastery called Surp Karapet was located in Abrakunis. It stood intact but in a state of disrepair until shortly before 2005, when it was demolished.^[2] The main church in the monastery was built in 1381 over the ruins of a previous church. Internally, it was a domed basilica with four piers. The lower parts of the church were built with cut stone, but the dome and its tall drum were of brick and from a later repair. The interior had Persian-style frescoes from the 1740s. On the exterior walls were various relief carvings, crosses, eagles, etc. Beside the south wall was a small chapel dedicated to St. Stephanos. In 1705 a bell tower was added to the roof of this chapel.^[3] The main church of the monastic complex was still standing in the 1980s.^[4] The church and whatever was remaining from the monastic complex was already totally erased by October 7, 2001.^[4] On May 31, 2013, a newly constructed mosque was opened on the place of the former monastery.^[4]

References

1. "Արգամ Այվազյան - Նախիջևանի ԻՍՍՀ հայկական հուշարձանները". armenianhouse.org. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
2. Maghakyan, Simon; Pickman, Sarah (18 February 2019). "A Regime Conceals Its Erasure of Indigenous Armenian Culture". Hyperallergic. Hyperallergic. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
3. Switzerland-Armenia Parliamentary Group (ed.) "The destruction of Jugha", Bern, 2006. pp. 73–74.
4. Khatchadourian, Lori; Smith, Adam T.; Ghulyan, Husik; Lindsay, Ian (2022). Silent Erasure: A Satellite Investigation of the Destruction of Armenian Heritage in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies: Ithaca, NY. pp. 272–273. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 September 2022.

External links

• Əbrəqunus (as Əbrəqunis) at GEOnet Names Server

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