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14-637: The Spitakavor Monastery is located on the slopes of Teksar mountain of the Vayots Dzor Province. The terrain is difficult, but the monastery can be reached on foot or with an all-terrain vehicle. It is about 8.4 kilometres (5.2 mi) from the University of Gladzor 's Museum and Tanahat Monastery and about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) to the Proshaberd fortress. Behind fortified walls lies buildings of white shaved ( felsite , including

28-682: Is a village in the Yeghegnadzor Municipality of the Vayots Dzor Province in Armenia . The historic 13th-century University of Gladzor is located in the village, and the 13th-century Proshaberd fortress is located 6-7 km to the north of the village. The village is immediately bordered by the town of Yeghegnadzor to the south. This article about a location in Vayots Dzor Province, Armenia

42-585: Is chiseled into the headstone of the church's entrance. Other interesting artistic works included a sculpture of Jesus with his disciples and a relief of Eachi and his son. The History Museum of Armenia in Yerevan now holds a wall hanging that depicts Prince Hasan. The relief of the prince and his father is at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg , Russia. Although the monastery

56-404: Is small and somewhat remote, it has been described as follows: The monastery seems to be isolated from the entire world, and seems to be in the divine green surrounding where the human hand has yet not touched. Saying the harmony of the monastery and the nature around it is beautiful is not enough; “breathtakingly beautiful” this is how it should be described. The 14th-century Spitakavor Monastery

70-629: The monastery , church , a bell-tower and vestibule . Its main monument is the Spitakavor Church of the Holy Mother of God (Spitakavor Church of Surp Astvatsatsin). Due to the number of springtime flowers that surround the monastery, it is sometimes called Tsaghkavank (the Monastery of Flowers) by the villagers of Vernashen. An image, described as "a remarkable example of mid-century Armenian sculpture" of Mary (mother of Jesus) ,

84-536: The Mongols , Ak-Koyunlu and Kara Koyunlu tribes attacked and "devastated" the region, including the monastery church gavit, monastery defense walls, and service building. Without restoration of the destroyed buildings and walls, the church of the monastery stood until the Persian-Ottoman War when in 1604 thousands of Armenians were forcibly resettled under Shah Abbas . The church and the remains of

98-443: The art of manuscript writing, and 3. Armenian musical notation (khaz) and music. Among the subjects taught at the university were theology, mythology, philosophy, bibliology, grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, astronomy, chronology, and geometry. Around 350 students graduated from Gladzor University. The length of matriculation was seven to eight years, not counting the three years of religious education required to be admitted to

112-459: The guidance of Father Superior and Phililogist Vardapet Avagter. There were two other monasteries in the area, Tanade and St. Khach monasteries, and the three used fire signals to communicate in "ancient times". The monastery was attacked in the 14th century by Lenk Timur whose armies destroyed its walls and narthex, known in Armenia as gavit . In the 14th or 15th century, after the fall of

126-511: The monastery remain. Information panels in Armenian, Russian, Italian, French and English were installed for visitors. The remains of the Armenian military leader and political thinker Garegin Nzhdeh were secretly buried in the yard of Spitakavor Monastery on 9 May 1987 or in 1983. He had died in a Soviet prison in 1955. Annually on June 17 Armenians across the world conduct a pilgrimage to

140-420: The monastery's graveyard. His cross stone was sculpted by Gegham Sahakyan. 39°49′47″N 45°21′48″E  /  39.82972°N 45.36333°E  / 39.82972; 45.36333 [REDACTED] [REDACTED] University of Gladzor University of Gladzor ( Armenian : Գլաձորի համալսարան , romanized :  Gladzori hamalsaran ) was a medieval Armenian university, one of

154-614: The region of Vayots Dzor . It flourished under the patronage of the Orbelian and Proshian noble families. Gladzor had at least nine professors and around fifteen lecturers. The university's longtime head was Esayi of Nich (Nchetsi) , who led the university until 1331. He was succeeded by the head teacher Tiratur. The noted miniature painters Toros Taronatsi, Avag and Momik taught and painted at Gladzor. Gladzor had its own bylaws and granted academic degrees. Its three main courses were as follows: 1. Armenian and foreign texts, 2.

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168-464: The two "great centres of learning" along with the University of Tatev ( c.  1340–1425 ) that were "essentially of a single tradition." It was established around 1280 by Nerses of Mush , a student of Vardan Areveltsi , and operated until 1340 and "left behind a rich intellectual heritage". The university grew out of the monastic center of learning of the Aghberts or Gladzor Monastery in

182-575: The university. Graduates received the rank of vardapet . Although it was referred to as a university and sometimes analogized to contemporary European universities , scholar S. Peter Cowe suggests that Gladzor and other medieval Armenian academies were more comparable to monastic schools . 39°46′42″N 45°20′52″E  /  39.7783°N 45.3478°E  / 39.7783; 45.3478 Gladzor 39°46′42″N 45°20′52″E  /  39.77833°N 45.34778°E  / 39.77833; 45.34778 Gladzor ( Armenian : Գլաձոր )

196-584: Was built by two princes from the Proshyan dynasty during the Zakarid Armenia period. The construction of the church began by Prince Eachi (died in 1318) and completed in 1321 by his son Prince Amir Hasan II. Between 1321 and 1330, the narthex was built, and in 1330 Hovhannes Proshian and his wife, Tadzna, added a three-story bell-tower to the western wall of narthex. The monastery became an "important cultural, educational and spiritual center" under

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