İşhan
| İşhan | |
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 The Church of the İşhan Monastery |
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| Construction year: | 7th century |
| Location: | 40 ° 47 '8.3 " N , 41 ° 44' 49.1" E |
| Location: |
Yusufeli Artvin , Turkey |
| Purpose: | Georgian Orthodox Church |
İşhan , Ischkani or Ischchan ( Georgian იშხანი , Armenian Իշխան , from the Armenian word for “prince”; Turkish İşhan ) is an abandoned Christian monastery in the area of today's Turkish province of Artvin .
The monastery was one of the important spiritual centers in the medieval Tajk , later Tao-Klardschetien . The first church was built by the Armenian Catholicos Nerses III. built by the builder in the 7th century, who himself came from the village of Ishchan in Tajk and was named Nerses III. Ishanetsi is known.
The church had four cones , a central dome and four apses arranged in a star shape . It was devastated during the 7th century Arab invasions.
In the first half of the 8th century the church was abandoned after the Arab conquest , and Saba Ischchneli , one of Gregory's followers of Chandsta , renewed it in the first half of the 10th century. In the medieval Georgian saint's life of Gregory of Chandsta, the church is mentioned as follows:
“By the will of God, Saba became Bishop of Ischchan, ruling the bishopric and the cathedral built by Saint Nerses, the Catholicos of Armenia . This was devastated and orphaned for many years. Now she was given by St. Sheba rebuilt with the help of those pious princes, and Ishkhan came to bloom forever and ever. "
The shape of Saba's restored church is unclear. Its four conches corresponded to the cathedral of Zvart'not and the later church of Bana , possibly it was a three-aisled basilica that filled the eastern part of the current church.
literature
- Mine Kadiroğlu: The architecture of the Georgian church at İşhan. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-631-42828-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ THE MONASTERY OF ISHAN (PDF file)
- ↑ a b GREGORY OF KHANDZTA & THE GEORGIAN NATIONAL REVIVAL. In: georgianweb.com. Retrieved January 5, 2015 .
- ^ Robert W. Thomson, J. Howard-Johnston: The Armenian History attributed to Sebeos ( Translated Texts for Historians , Vol. 2), Liverpool 1999, p. 140.
- ^ Nerses I – IV - Catholic Encyclopedia. In: catholic.org. Retrieved January 5, 2015 .
- ↑ Rouben Paul Adalian: Historical Dictionary of Armenia. Scarecrow Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-810-87450-3 , p. PR35. limited preview in Google Book search
- ↑ Datur: Ishan yeni ingilizce (PDF; 2.4 MB)
- ↑ Sirarpie The Nersessian : III. Armenian Architecture. In: Dies .: Armenia and the Byzantine Empire. Cambridge, MA., 1945, pp. 55-83
- ↑ Wachtang Djobadze: Early Medieval Georgian Monasteries in Historic Tao, Klardjetʿi and Šavšetʿi. (Research on art history and Christian archeology, XVII) Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1992, p. 194