©PanARMENIAN Photo / Davit Hakobyan Gandzasar is an Armenian monastery situated in the Martakert region of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) republic, near the village of Vank. "Gandzasar" means treasure mountain or hilltop treasure in Armenian. Gandzasar was the residence of an Armenian catholicos from about 1400 to 1816, and is now the seat of the Archbishop of Artsakh. Although the monastery was damaged during an Azerbaijani bombing raid in 1991, in which the house of the Father Superior... read more
