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) was removed.
This kind of scrap metal extraction recalls the looting of metal roofs from mosques and other architecture following the 1st Nagorno-Karabakh War, which CHW documented in our 2023 investigation, Between the Wars.
The Holy Savior Monastery is not on Azerbaijan’s monument inventory. CHW calls on Azerbaijani authorities to add this historic site to the list as a 17th century Armenian monastery and accord it all due protections to ensure its preservation.
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