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Geghard

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http://echmiadzin.asj-oa.am/10215/ Ս. Գեղարդա վանքում տարոնական աղբյուր-հուշարձանի բացումը

http://echmiadzin.asj-oa.am/2958/ Այրի վանք կամ Գեղարդա վանք

http://echmiadzin.asj-oa.am/4810/ Գեղարդի վանքի գանձերից

http://echmiadzin.asj-oa.am/1002/ Զբոսապտույտ դեպի Գեղարդ և Գառնի

http://echmiadzin.asj-oa.am/1182/ Մեծ Վարպետին հետ դեպի Գեղարդ և Գառնի

p.191 1933 թ. փակվում և հնագիտական արգելոց է հայտարարվում Գեղարդի վանքը

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[http://echmiadzin.asj-oa.am/11200/ Միջնադարյան Հայաստանի վարդապետարանները և Ս. Գեղարդա վանքի մշակութային կյանքը]

http://www.armenica.org/cgi-bin/armenica.cgi?920297140677747;=2=ba=1====baz0019

http://haygirk.nla.am/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=99488

http://haygirk.nla.am/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=142069

https://www.azatutyun.am/a/30121344.html

Unsorted, random
Colin Thubron Geghard: We penetrated deeper and higher into the hills, making for the cave-monastery of Gueghard up a valley suddenly empty and overbear- ing. On either side grey and yellow bluffs dangled above the river or tapered to the skyline in pitted organ-pipes. The monastery was a wild, secret place, enclosed in cliffs above the stream's head. A few pilgrims and tourists were about. Black-robed priests were tending beehives on a terrace, or snoring in the shade, and nearby trees were knotted with the handkerchiefs of the faithful, left there for a plea or a thanksgiving. Irina sat down on a boulder overlooking the stream and told me to go in alone. 'I don't like these places. I like things rational.' She examined her painted toe-nails. 'These people call themselves Christian, but half of it's superstition-all that giving candles in exchange for favours!' But beneath them, and pushing deep into the cliffs, a labyrinth of churches, cells and mortuary chapels burrows and winds through an intestinal darkness. The frescoes and church furniture have gone, but the chambers themselves heave and gouge with a savage, indestructible strength. They are upheld by the passive power of the whole mountain. Their subterranean pillars reach up to monolithic spans of arch and lintel. Their walls are carved with disordered crosses, repeated like an incantation, and the chiselled blazons of princes rise around their emptied tombs. The feel is of eternal dusk. The sun penetrates only in a jagged stammer of light, through a few embrasures and perforated domes, and the black-red basalt of the building-stone is of one flesh with the living rock. As for me, I felt as if I were back in the Middle East. I passed Islamic-looking prayer-niches and trudged under stalactite vaults like those of Mameluke Egypt.

Heritage status
https://www.aysor.am/en/news/2018/12/08/monastery-geghard/1501225 08/12/2018 Monastery of Geghard granted UNESCO enhanced protection status

Notable events
On September 12, 2019 an Armenian classical and religious music concert was held within the monastery complex in attendance of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, President Armen Sarkissian, other officials and ambassadors to Armenia.

https://www.azatutyun.am/a/30098112.html