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Title
Door To The Monastery 2
Artist
Bearj B Photo Art
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art
Description
“Door to the Monastery”, the entrance to an Armenian Monastery, founded in 931 AD and still functioning today.
Sitting high in the mountains, in a remote area of southern Armenia, “Gndevank” is not on the normal tourist maps, has hardly any parishioners and those few that attend services are few tourists that have the stamina to have made a long trek on a very narrow mountain road to get there.
There are about four or five Monks who live there year round, who are snowed-in throughout the winter with practically no way in or out until the snow melts. The monastery sits in the mountains at an elevation of about 4,000 feet above sea level. Many of the thousands of Armenian Churches and Monasteries, built throughout their history were built in higher elevations and acted both as religious centers and as fortresses, as a defense against the invading Zoroastrians, Persians, Mongols and the Ottoman Turks, since they were the only Christian nation sitting on the Silk Road connecting the Eastern trade routes to the West.
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June 20th, 2019
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