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Surp Marinos Monastery

Gürpınar, Turkey · built 901

St. Marinos is a ruined Armenian Orthodox monastery in the Gürpınar district of Van Province of Turkey, to the southeast of Lake Van. Built in the 12th century, it ceased functioning as a monastery after the Armenian genocide in 1915.

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