Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh)

Over a thousand years architecture with its artistic and historical values had been developing in Artsakh. The traditional architecture of Artsakh is temple architecture with churches, monasteries, cloisters and so on. Here, on a small territory, a big amount of religious and cultural monuments of the past ages is concentrated. The total number of Armenian cultural monuments in Artsakh goes beyond four thousand. The majority of historical-architectural monuments of the country are in rural districts. Today one can enjoy exquisite masterpieces of the Armenian architecture, which by its monumentality and astonishing decorative solutions concentrate in themselves the whole centuries-old art of folk-creator. Among them is the pearl of the Armenian architecture – the monastery of Gandzasar, the wonderful monastic complex of Dadivank with 10 constructions of 5-6 cc., Amaras, Vachagan the Pious temple and many other monuments of Christian history and culture in Artsakh.