The 17th century Holy Savior Monastery located near Təpəkənd/Tonashen in Azerbaijan’s Aghdara District has been damaged. Between October 2024 and August 2025 most of the metal roofing that had been added as part of a 2009 restoration (in then Nagorno-Karabakh)…
Today CHW released its eighth report on Armenian cultural heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh. The report documents the results of two rounds of satellite-based monitoring of over 500 cultural heritage sites in the region. As the report notes in its summary assessment,…
CHW Lead Research Dr. Husik Ghulyan provided expert testimony to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) hearing on Religious Freedom Conditions in Azerbaijan today. In his remarks he provided a synopsis of the current state of at-risk cultural heritage…
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Satellite imagery shows that between Oct. 5, 2023, and April 30, 2024, the 19th century Tandzatap church in Garababa, Zangilan sustained major damage. Most of the roof has collapsed, as has the southern wall which featured an embedded stone engraved…
[Reposted here from a CIAMS News Article by Ruth Portes] On September 19, 2024, Prof. Adam T. Smith (Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Anthropology at Cornell University and Co-director of Caucasus Heritage Watch) presented testimony to the Tom…
CHW today released Monitoring Report #7 on cultural heritage at risk in Nagorno-Karabakh. Our latest monitoring cycle has revealed the greatest number of impacted Armenian cultural sites since we began monitoring in 2021: 6 newly destroyed sites and 7 facing…
Azerbaijan destroyed the ruins of two Soviet-era schools, and with them the traces of a medieval Armenian past embedded in their walls. In its latest satellite monitoring mission, Caucasus Heritage Watch has documented the destruction of two Soviet-era schools in…
Satellite imagery dated April 4 shows that the destruction of the Ghazanchetsots cemetery in Shusha is complete. This marks the first destruction of a cemetery since the ICJ ordered Azerbaijan to prevent and punish attacks on Armenian cultural heritage. Damage…
Between December 28, 2023 and April 4, 2024, St. John the Baptist church (S. Hovhannes Mkrtich), a 177 year old landmark in Shusha was destroyed, Azerbaijan’s most egregious violation yet of a December 2021 ICJ order. Built by Armenians in…
