Hogots Monastery
| Hogots Monastery Հոգոց վանք |
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| Construction year: | 528 |
| Style elements : | Armenian architecture |
| Location: | 38 ° 4 '59.9 " N , 43 ° 25' 57.4" E |
| Location: |
Gürpınar (Van) Van , Turkey |
| Purpose: | Armenian Apostolic Monastery |
The Hogots Monastery ( Armenian Հոգոց վանք Hogots vank , Armenian : Monastery of the Holy Spirit ) was an Armenian monastery in the western part of the Gürpınar district near Van in what is now Turkey . It was located five kilometers northwest of the village of Özlüce .
The monastery, founded in 528, was one of the few noteworthy monasteries in the Antzevasiq district in historic Armenia , which was part of the Vaspurakan province . In the seventeenth century it became the most important religious center of the Norduz district in the Vilâyet Van of the Ottoman Empire . The priest Vahan (Armenian Վահան Քահանայ) was the last known priest of the monastery before the genocide in 1917. Almost a hundred Armenian women and children who had locked themselves there fell victim to the flames.
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- Gurgēn Gasapean, Hrachʻ Tasnapetean: Monuments of Armenian Architecture . Hamazkaine, 1972, p. VII, IX ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed February 20, 2016]).