Shoghakat Church Tabriz

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Shoghakat Church in Tabriz, 2008
Interior of the Schoghakat Church in Tabriz
Funeral of Nshan Topouzian , May 5, 2010

The Armenian Apostolic Shoghakat Church ( Armenian Թավրիժի Սուրբ Շողակաթ եկեղեցի Tawrischi Surb Schoghakat jekeghezi shortly Surb Schoghakat or after westarmenischer transcription Surp Schoghagat ; translated as "Holy light beam", Persian کلیسای شوغاگات مقدس) is a church in the Iranian city ​​of Tabriz that was completed in 1940. It belongs to the Tabriz-based diocese of Atrpatakan ( Azerbaijan ) of the Armenian Apostolic Church .

Surname

Like the famous Shoghakat Church in Echmiadzin, the church is named after the martyrdom of 37 nuns who were executed around the year 301, who fled to Armenia with St. Hripsime and her tutor and monastery head, St. Gajane, before the Roman Emperor Diocletian were. During her martyrdom , to which she was the Armenian King Trdat III. after Hripsime had refused to become his wife and wanted to remain a nun, a ray of light is said to have appeared after which the church was later named. Soon after , Trdat converted to Christianity and made it the state religion .

The mother of the donor for the Tabris church building, Simon Manocherian , was called Schoghakat.

Location

The Shoghakat Church of Tabriz is located on the Armenian cemetery surrounded by Charm Street, Mashruteh Boulevard and Bolvar-e-Mollasadra , on Charm Street opposite the Faculty of Architecture of the Tabriz Islamic Art University , the former Khosravi leather factory, not far from the southern end of the Southern Schariati Street (Schahnaz Süd).

history

In ancient times, the Armenian Christians in Tabriz buried their dead in the cemetery near the Mariam-Nanna Church in Maralan . In the 1850s, the Armenian diocese of Atrpatakan purchased the land for the new Armenian cemetery of Tabriz when Sahak Satunjan was bishop. The church was not built until the 20th century. The church building was financed by Simon Manocherian, director of a leather factory, whose mother was named Schoghakat, who died in 1939, and was completed in 1940.

architecture

The church has a rectangular floor plan with four square columns in the middle, which support the tower with the church dome and through which the interior is divided into a larger central nave and two small aisles. The entrance is on the west side, opposite the altar on the east. The outer stone facades of the church on the north, south and west sides of the church are framed by semicircular and oval arches.

Personalities buried in the cemetery near the church

  • Nshan Topouzian (1966–2010), prelate of Atrpatakan, buried in front of the entrance to the church.
  • Nerses Melik Tangjan , prelate of Atrpatakan during the First and Second World Wars, for 40 years
  • Bagrat, prelate of Atrpatakan, died in 1991
  • Poghos Poghosjan, who came to Tabriz from the south shore of Lake Van as an orphan during the Great Genocide , cared for by Catholic priests and who converted to Catholicism to become a Catholic priest
  • Manocherian family (Simon Manocherian's father, died 1944, and his mother Schoghakat, died 1939)
  • Dr. Aslanian (died 1940)
  • Memorial to the Armenian martyrs of Choy , massacred by the Ottoman army in 1918

literature

  • تبریز به روایت تصویر ، ابراهیم پورحسین خونیق ، انتشارات ، چاپ اول ، تبریز ۱۳۸۲. [Tabriz by narration of the image, Ibrahim Pourhossein Khoniq, Publishing, First edition, Tabriz, 2003.]
  • کلیساهای تاریخی ایران ، درگاه کویر ، معماری و بناها [Historical Churches of Iran, Desert Harbor, Architecture and buildings.]
  • کتاب ارمنیان ایران, نویسنده: آندرانیک هویان, صفحههای (111 تا 157) انتشارات: مرکز بینالمللی گفتگوی تمدنها با همکاری انتشارات هرمس, تاریخ: 1380, شابک: 2-007-363-964 [Andranik Hovian, Armenians of Iran (Armanīyān-i Iran). Tehran: International Center for Dialogue Among Civilizations, in collaboration with Hermes Publishers, 1380 (2001), pp. 111 to 157.] ISBN 964-363-007-2 .
  • کتاب کلیسای قدیم در ایران ، نویسنده: ویلیام میلر ، برگرداننده: محمد سعیدی [William Miller, Book of the Old Church in Iran, Recited: Mohammad Saeedi.]
  • کلیساهای ارامنه ایران ، مؤلف: لینا ملکمیان ، چاپ دوم ، زمستان ۱۳۸۰ دفتر پژوهشهای فرهنگی [Lina Malcolmian, Second Edition, Churches of Armenians in Iran. 2001, Churches of Armenians in Iran.
  • مروری بر کلیساهای ارامنهٔ استان آذربایجان شرقی ، نویسنده: نادره شجاع دل ، فصلنامه فرهنگی پیماامه فرهنگی پیماامه فرهنگی پیماا۱۳۸۴ رهنگی پیماا۱۳۸۴ رن arbai ن ن [م ال Peyman Cultural Journal, 1384 (2005), p. 34.]
  • دانشنامه ایرانیان ارمنی ، نویسنده: ژانت د. لازاریان ، انتشارات هیرمند ، چاپ دوم: ۱۳۸۸ ، شابک: ۰-۵۰-۶۹۷۴-۹۶۴-۹۷۸ [Janet D. Lazarian: Encyclopedia of Iranian Armenians. Hirmand Publication, Second Edition 2009], ISBN 978-964-6974-50-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Valarshapat / Shoghakat. (No longer available online.) In: Armenian Studies Program. California State University, Fresno , archived from the original on June 10, 2010 ; accessed on April 12, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / armenianstudies.csufresno.edu
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h گورستان ارامنه تبریز [Armenian Cemetery of Tabriz, irandeserts.com]
  3. ↑ Western Prelacy News, 30 April 2010

Coordinates: 38 ° 3 '21.5 "  N , 46 ° 17' 2.4"  E