Yeghvard Church, Armenia

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Yeghvard, one of the Armenian old settlements (now the center of Nairi region), is full of different period and type valuable architectural monuments. In the middle of Avan are situated the ruins of a one-nave church (only the bottom part of walls preserved). The scheme is a prolonged rectangle (9,1 x 23,5m) stretching towards east-west direction. One of the four entries is from West, the other three are from South.

The huge volume of the basilica (14,1 x 27,3m) rises over ther wall- anchors. The hall divides into three naves by means of four pairs of T-shape pillars. The central nave is considerably wider than the ones on the sides. Yeghvard's basilica has a unique peculiarity, which doesn't come across in any other same type of Armenian mounuments- the side naves in the eastern side finish up with small apses looking at the hall.

The northern wall's lug and south-western corner's anchor witnes about the existence of a vaulted hall. The praying hall finishes with the half-rounded apse of the stage in eastern side. The wall-anchors of the arch also preserved. The three-nave basilica is situated towards south from the one-nave church, and is built from the local clearly trimmed tuff.

The walls of the church stand out with exceptionally richness of decorations. Yeghvard's church is one of the best similar- type monuments of Medieval Armenia and is the best-preserved one.

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