{"id":1517,"date":"2023-11-27T20:18:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T20:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2023-11-27T20:19:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T20:19:03","slug":"damage-alert-ghazanchetsots-cemetery-shushi-shusha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/?p=1517","title":{"rendered":"DAMAGE ALERT: Ghazanchetsots Cemetery (Shushi\/Shusha)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DAMAGE ALERT: Between Oct. 5 and Nov. 3, another Armenian cemetery in Shusha\/i was damaged. It appears that bulldozers dumped heaps of debris atop the old Ghazanchetsots cemetery (southeast of the cathedral), endangering the already fragmented tombstones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The location of the cemetery is confirmed by maps, publications, and recent photographs (supporting materials in CHW\u2019s forthcoming Monitoring Report #6). The 18-19th c. cemetery had been severely damaged during the Soviet era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the 1990s, 45 tombstones remained. One marks the passing of Stepan, a blacksmith from Ghazanchi village in Nakhchivan, who died in 1758. He was one of many Armenian migrants from that village whose name was given to the city\u2019s well-known cathedral.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Stepan\u2019s tombstone recalls the destruction of the Armenian cemetery in his native village, the Old Cemetery of Ghazanchi\/Shahkert<\/a>. CHW documented its erasure in our investigation into the recent destruction of Armenian cultural heritage in Nakhchivan. In that investigation, \u201cSilent Erasure\u201d, we also documented the destruction of the medieval Armenian monastery<\/a> in the blacksmith\u2019s native Ghazanchi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the sixth Armenian cemetery impacted since Nov. 2020, after the destruction of Mets Tagher and Sghnakh, damage to the cemetery near Vazgenashen\/Hajisamly, and damage to Shusha\u2019s Northern and Yerevan Gates cemeteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DAMAGE ALERT: Between Oct. 5 and Nov. 3, another Armenian cemetery in Shusha\/i was damaged. It appears that bulldozers dumped heaps of debris atop the old Ghazanchetsots cemetery (southeast of the cathedral), endangering the already fragmented tombstones. The location of the cemetery is confirmed by maps, publications, and recent photographs (supporting materials in CHW\u2019s forthcoming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heritage-monitoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522,"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}