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The temple of St. Grigoris at the Amaras Monastery in Nagorno Karabakh where in the 5th century Saint Mesrob Mashtots, the inventor of the Armenian Alphabet, established the first-ever Armenian school that used his script.

Amaras Monastery (Template:Lang-hy) is the the oldest Christian temple in Nagorno-Karabakh, is an Armenian Apostolic Church monastery located near the village of Sos in the Martuni county of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. The oldest church at the monastery was built by St. Gregory the Illuminator in 310, but the main church is a more recent addition, constructed from white stone. It was built in the 19th century and is named St. Gregoris (in honor of the grandson of St. Gregory the Illuminator). In addition, Mesrop Mashtots, the inventor of the Armenian alphabet taught theology and his new alphabet at Amaras.

Although the Monastery of Amaras is surrounded by high walls, which were used to keep invaders out, the complex has been repeatedly plundered and rebuilt for the past 1,500 years; its most recent brush with disaster was in 1992, when Azerbaijani troops briefly held it.

References

  1. Viviano, Frank. “The Rebirth of Armenia,” National Geographic Magazine, March 2004, p. 18,
  2. Artsakh: A Photographic Journey by Hrair Khatcherian, p.6. OCLC 37785365

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