Bgheno-Noravank
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Monastery in the Vayots Dzor Province) is an 11th century Armenian monastery
in the Syunik Marz of Armenia
. It now consists of a small church dating to 1062, located on a little wooded promontory, and ornately decorated with borders and biblical reliefs. The ruins of this church were rediscovered in the 1920s by Axel Bakunts
, a well-known prose writer, during one of his wanderings as an agronomist.
Noravank
Noravank is a 13th century Armenian Apostolic Church monastery, located 122 km from Yerevan in a narrow gorge made by the Amaghu river, nearby the city of Yeghegnadzor, Armenia. The gorge is known for its tall, sheer, brick-red cliffs, directly across from the monastery. The monastery is best...
Monastery in the Vayots Dzor Province) is an 11th century Armenian monastery
Armenian architecture
Armenian architecture is an architectural style developed over the last 4,500 years of human habitation in the Armenian Highland and used principally by the Armenian people.- Common characteristics of Armenian architecture:...
in the Syunik Marz of Armenia
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
. It now consists of a small church dating to 1062, located on a little wooded promontory, and ornately decorated with borders and biblical reliefs. The ruins of this church were rediscovered in the 1920s by Axel Bakunts
Axel Bakunts
Aksel Bakunts was an Armenian prose writer, film-writer, translator and public activist.-Biography:Aksel Bakunts was born in 1899 in Goris and educated at the Gevorkian Seminary in Echmiadzin. Always outspoken, his first publication, a satirical account of the mayor of Goris, earned him a stint...
, a well-known prose writer, during one of his wanderings as an agronomist.