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Varzahan Monastery

Turkey · built 1101

Varzahan (Turkish: Uğrak Kiliseleri or Varzahan Kiliseleri), was an Armenian church founded in the 12th century near village Uğrak (formerly Varzahan), 10 km northwest of Bayburt, in eastern Turkey. After the Armenian genocide in 1915, it was demolished sometime between the 1920s and the mid-1950s.

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

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