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HALIDZOR FORTRESS IS A BARN (PHOTOS)
http://lurer.com/?p=44005&l=en
2012-09-26 23:42:38
Today our church culture, that has a centuries-old history, is in
helpless and hopeless condition. And often the tramplers are not only
enemies, but also "bearers" of the culture- Armenian people. Today
words of preserving our rich historical heritage , which is left
in the clutches of the Kurds and the Turks of Western Armenia are
heard everywhere and all the time, calls are made to fight- to go and
take the lands back, save Armenian churches, which have been turned
into houses, at best luck, and often into barns; final destructions
threatens to those. But how many of us pays attention to what goes on
today in Armenian churches and monasteries? At churches, which have
been shelter to an Armenian peasant when war and disaster, a peasant
who said a daily prayer to God. At churches where Armenian heroes -
Mamikonyan and Marzpetuni, Nzhdeh and David Bek fought for centuries
against their enemies, encouraged by the prayers of our sacred fathers.
Yesterday lurer.com had published an article, which touched the
issue of St. Karapet monastery, which has been turned into a barn by
the Kurds.
The response to that article was not late, but, unfortunately,
not from relevant bodies or NGOs, but from one of our readers, who
handed to lurer.com photos, showing how Armenian herdsmen turned
the already-restored Halidzor fortress, one of Armenian remarkable
architectural complexes of late middle ages, into a barn. The fortress
is on 1km south-west from the city of Kapan, on the right high bank of
Voghdji river. A nunnery-desert has been operating in the territory of
the fortress in the first half of the 17th century, which, after the
enclosure is serving as Melik Parsadanyans' ancestral fortress. It
has become the center for the liberation of Syunik since 1720s,
due to its unachievable position.
David Bek and Mkhitar Sparapet destroyed a great number of Turkish
troops near the fortress of Halidzor in 1725-27.
This church complex, which has a rich history, is not an ordinary
temple or monastery, but the witness of one of the most remarkable
events of our history. And a question arises after this sad incident:
what does our "religious" nation, having a history of more than 1700
years, and our "religious" government think about this, and who are
the responsible bodies for this or similar situations?
Nelly Avetisyan
From: A. Papazian
http://lurer.com/?p=44005&l=en
2012-09-26 23:42:38
Today our church culture, that has a centuries-old history, is in
helpless and hopeless condition. And often the tramplers are not only
enemies, but also "bearers" of the culture- Armenian people. Today
words of preserving our rich historical heritage , which is left
in the clutches of the Kurds and the Turks of Western Armenia are
heard everywhere and all the time, calls are made to fight- to go and
take the lands back, save Armenian churches, which have been turned
into houses, at best luck, and often into barns; final destructions
threatens to those. But how many of us pays attention to what goes on
today in Armenian churches and monasteries? At churches, which have
been shelter to an Armenian peasant when war and disaster, a peasant
who said a daily prayer to God. At churches where Armenian heroes -
Mamikonyan and Marzpetuni, Nzhdeh and David Bek fought for centuries
against their enemies, encouraged by the prayers of our sacred fathers.
Yesterday lurer.com had published an article, which touched the
issue of St. Karapet monastery, which has been turned into a barn by
the Kurds.
The response to that article was not late, but, unfortunately,
not from relevant bodies or NGOs, but from one of our readers, who
handed to lurer.com photos, showing how Armenian herdsmen turned
the already-restored Halidzor fortress, one of Armenian remarkable
architectural complexes of late middle ages, into a barn. The fortress
is on 1km south-west from the city of Kapan, on the right high bank of
Voghdji river. A nunnery-desert has been operating in the territory of
the fortress in the first half of the 17th century, which, after the
enclosure is serving as Melik Parsadanyans' ancestral fortress. It
has become the center for the liberation of Syunik since 1720s,
due to its unachievable position.
David Bek and Mkhitar Sparapet destroyed a great number of Turkish
troops near the fortress of Halidzor in 1725-27.
This church complex, which has a rich history, is not an ordinary
temple or monastery, but the witness of one of the most remarkable
events of our history. And a question arises after this sad incident:
what does our "religious" nation, having a history of more than 1700
years, and our "religious" government think about this, and who are
the responsible bodies for this or similar situations?
Nelly Avetisyan
From: A. Papazian