Akhtamar

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Akhtamar

an island on Lake Van (now on Turkish territory); residence of the Armenian Artsrunid tsars (10th—11th centuries). A unique monument of Armenian medieval architecture—the Church of the Holy Cross (915–921; architect, Manuel), which is decorated with frescoes and elegant stone carvings (reliefs on secular and biblical subjects, with ornamentation in the form of animals and plants)—and ruins of a tenth-century port have been preserved.

REFERENCES

Arutiunian, V. M., and S. A. Safarian. Pamiatniki armianskogo zodchestva. Moscow, 1951. Pages 49–50.
Der Nersessian, S. Aght’amar: Church of the Holy Cross. Cambridge, Mass., 1965.

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