{"id":1967,"date":"2025-12-03T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2025-12-15T18:08:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:08:41","slug":"damage-alert-holy-savior-monastery-near-t%c9%99p%c9%99k%c9%99nd-tonashen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/?p=1967","title":{"rendered":"Damage Alert: Holy Savior Monastery near T\u0259p\u0259k\u0259nd\/Tonashen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 17th century Holy Savior Monastery located near T\u0259p\u0259k\u0259nd\/Tonashen in Azerbaijan\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MT444-0SocMedDuo-Reduced.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MT444-0SocMedDuo-Reduced-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1968\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MT444-0SocMedDuo-Reduced-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MT444-0SocMedDuo-Reduced-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MT444-0SocMedDuo-Reduced-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MT444-0SocMedDuo-Reduced-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MT444-0SocMedDuo-Reduced-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MT444-0SocMedDuo-Reduced-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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, <a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/e1c69b7dd46f4c839dffc0fab9248368\">Between the Wars<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Holy Savior Monastery is not on Azerbaijan\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MT444.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MT444-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1969\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MT444-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MT444-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MT444-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MT444-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/MT444.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 17th century Holy Savior Monastery located near T\u0259p\u0259k\u0259nd\/Tonashen in Azerbaijan\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1967","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\/1967","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1970,"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/1970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caucasusheritage.cornell.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}