Armenian church turned into cowshed in Azerbaijan
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Friday, November 30, 17:48
The Armenian church of the XIX century located in Dash-bulakh village
of Azerbaijan has been turned into a cowshed, director of Armenian
architecture fund (RAA), Samvel Karapetyan, said at today’s
press-conference.
He said that the Azerbaijani party is trying to hide that the church
is Armenian and called it “Albanian”. He also added that such a policy
has been always conducted by the Azerbaijani authorities since the
Soviet times. For instance, in a book “Architecture of ancient and
middle age Azerbaijan” published in 1986, the Armenian khachkars
(cross stones) of Old Jugha were called “Albanian khachdashes”.
He also added that Armenian Foreign Ministry and Culture Ministry
could raise in international structures the problem of such an
attitude to the Armenian monuments. However, as he said, even the fact
of destruction of the Armenian cross stones of Old Jugha by
Azerbaijani servicemen was fully ignored by the Armenian authorities.
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