Ախթալա վանքային համալիրի ընդհանուր տեսարան հյուսիսից

 Armenia > Lori Province > Akhtala

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An inscription in Armenian in the khachkar reports the construction in 1188 of Mariam, daughter of Tsar Tashir-Dzoraget Curik, the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the beginning of the XIII century, Atabek Ivan Mkhargrdzeli from the Zakaryan family, an influential person at the court of the Georgian Queen Tamara, who transferred from the Armenian Apostolic Church to the bosom of the Georgian Orthodox Church, transfers the monastery to the Chalcedonites and rebuilds the Armenian church. In 1438, for the first time, a village with the name Akhtala was mentioned in the sources as the property of the Georgian Catholicosate. At the beginning of the XVIII century, the monastery fell into disrepair