Sunday, August 30, 2026 Search My Trip EnglishChinese
World news · travel · culture
Taiwan The Taiwan Times
Taiwan's window to the world

Yeghrdut monastery

Muş Province, Turkey

Yeghrdut monastery (Yeghrduti vank) was an Armenian monastery in the western part of Muş province of modern Turkey, approximately 22 km northwest of Muş city. Built in 283 A.D., it ceased functioning as a monastery after the Armenian genocide in 1915 and got destroyed in 1920.

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

Other monasteries in Turkey