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14-511: (Redirected from Bahcesaray ) The name Bahçesaray comes from Persian باغچه سرای bāghche-sarāy which means the Garden Palace. It may refer to: Places [ edit ] Turkey [ edit ] Bahçesaray, Van , a district and municipality of Van Province Bahçesaray, Vezirköprü , a village in the district of Vezirköprü, Samsun Province Crimea [ edit ] Bakhchysarai ,

28-538: A city in Crimea [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bahçesaray&oldid=1177739518 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

42-536: Is at a distance of 110 kilometres (68 mi) from Van . The town is built on the banks of the Bahçesaray River . The name comes from Persian bāghche-sarāy , which means "the Garden Palace". Its former name was Müküs, derived from Armenian Mokkʿ ( Armenian : Մոկք ) region. The Kurdish Miks derives from the Armenian. The word "Mokk ' " in classical Armenian language means: "the place of

56-497: Is covered with a barrel vault to transverse arch . A mono-nave perhaps earlier he is assistant south. Consecrated in 983, the Surb Astvatsatsin ("Holy Mother of God") Church is a publicly listed partitioned cross surmounted by a drum , octagonal in shape, but with a cylindrical, conical cap interior; the walls of the church, stone, are decorated with brick strips. The building is pierced by three gates, respectively

70-598: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bah%C3%A7esaray, Van Bahçesaray ( Armenian : Մոկս , romanized :  Moks , Kurdish : Miks ) is municipality and district of Van Province , Turkey . Its area is 426 km , and its population is 13,495 (2022). It was a bucak in Pervari District of Siirt Province until 1964 and in Gevaş district of Van Province between 1964 and 1987. It

84-554: The Surb Stepannos, the gavit and the Surb Arakelots, the second being embraced and adorned with stalactites . The interior of the church was decorated with hagiographic paintings, of which only the coating remains. Two contemporary mono-naves chapels, the Surb Stepannos and Surb Arakelots (Holy Apostles), are respectively contiguous to its southern façade and its northern façade. Backed by its western façade, gavit

98-637: The delivery of a relic of the True Cross by the Byzantine emperors Basil II and Constantine VIII , inbound to sign with the kingdom of Vaspurakan , in which the province of Mokk is integrated since the reign of Gagik I of Vaspurakan . The relic was initially held at the Surb Hovhannes Karapet Church, founded in 950 by a Father Davit, whose sanctity is to origin of the supply of emperors according to Gregory of Narek. It

112-556: The district, leaving at least 41 people dead and 84 others injured. There are 20 neighbourhoods in Bahçesaray District: Aparank Monastery The monastery was founded in the 10th century to house a relic of the True Cross . The church was restored and expanded in the 17th century, and it was abandoned during the first half of the 20th century after the Armenian genocide . Before

126-606: The genocide, it consisted of the churches of Surb Hovhannes Karapet (St. John the Baptist), Surb Astvatsatsin (Holy Mother of God), and the chapels of Surb Stepannos (St. Stephen) and Surb Arakelots (Holy Apostles), a gavit , a fountain, and a hotel. The monastery is located on the Aparank Armenian plateau and is 2,400 metres (7,900 ft) above sea level on the southwest side of Vankin Dağ (Sarikhats). It lies northwest of

140-594: The magic". According to the legend, Amenap'rkich ("All-Saving") monastery that was nearby Moks, has the grave of a magician by name Gaspar. Probably name of "the place of the magic" or just "Mokk" is connected with this mysterious personality. But scientific sources say that in the Urartu era there existed the Moxene tribe and Moxoene , so the names Mokk' and Moks originated from this tribe's name. The district corresponds to Historical Armenia 's Mok Arandznak district, which

154-686: The town of Aparank (Veras in Kurdish) and 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of Bahçesaray in Van province , Turkey. Historically, the complex was located in the township of Mamrtank/Mirja in Mokk' province. The founding of the monastery is known because of panegyric written for the occasion by Gregory of Narek , the History of the Holy Cross Aparank . This monastery is an important part of

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168-482: Was abandoned in the early 19th century and turned into farm by Kurds in the second half. The staurotheke gold disappeared. Founded in 950, Surb Hovhannes Karapet ("St. John the Baptist") is the oldest church of the monastery and is located 150 metres (490 ft) northwest of the other buildings; this is a small triconch inscribed in a rectangle, without corner piece, built in shale outside but brick inside. It

182-474: Was part of the greater province of Moxoene . The district has several ancient Armenian monasteries and churches. The Aparank monastery is located in the vicinity of the town. In the 19th century Bahçesaray was the center of the Kurdish Emirate of Müküs , until the emirate was defeated by the troops of Ottoman Empire in 1846. On 4 and 5 February 2020, a pair of avalanches struck a highway in

196-495: Was then brought to the Surb Astvatsatsin Church, erected by his successor, the abbot and bishop Stepannos, and which was solemnly consecrated in 983, in the presence of Ashot-Sahak of Vaspurakan and his brothers Gurgen-Khachik of Vaspurakan and Senekerim-Hovhannes . An important cultural center by the 15th century, the monastery was renovated in 1629, and expanded in following years by Abbot Simeon. It

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