Saint Hakob of Akori monastery

Iğdır Province, Turkey

Saint Hakob of Akori Monastery (pronounced Akori Surb Hakob Vank, also sometimes referred to as Saint James), was an Armenian monastery located in the southeastern part of the historic region of Surmalu (today the Iğdır Province of modern Turkey). The monastery was located 4.7 kilometers southwest of Akori, a village at the northeastern slope of Mount Ararat. Destroyed by an earthquake and lahar in 1840, Akori was later rebuilt. It is known today as Yenidoğan and remains a small Kurdish village. In 1829, Baltic German explorer Friedrich Parrot, Armenian writer Khachatur Abovian, and four others reached the top of Mount Ararat in the first recorded ascent in history. They used St. Hakob as their base.

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