Mrchmants Church

As of 1911, this church was still standing. When N. Ter-Movsisyan visited the site in that year, he remarked that “a small basilica church remains standing, made of ordinary stones with a small door” (Karapetyan 2019: 356). The church was largely destroyed during the Soviet period when it was reduced to its foundations. Fragments of its foundation inscription and other stones were reused in the construction of a school in the village while it was part of the Azerbaijan S.S.R. The inscription included the date A.D. 1304. October 12, 2021 imagery shows a new bulldozer scar for a roadbed crossing within 40m of the surviving foundations.