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Agarak monastery

Iğdır Province, Turkey · built 601

Agarak monastery is a former Armenian monastic complex of a few churches in the town of Ekrek, Iĝdir province, Turkey. Built built in the 5th or 6th century, it was destroyed after the Armenian genocide which began in 1915.

Monastery data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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