The Beautiful Monasteries of Haghpat and Sanahin

    The Beautiful Monasteries of Haghpat and Sanahin in ARMENIA 

 The two beautiful byzantine monasteris located in Armenia in (10th-13th centuries).These two monasteries center was very important place of learning .Sanahin in accurate was acclaimed for its academy of illuminators and calligraphers. They are aberrant examples of the 'domed hall' ecclesiastical architectonics that developed in Armenia from the 10th to the 13th centuries, which attenuated elements of both Byzantine abbey architectonics and the acceptable colloquial architecture appearance of this region.

 Construction of the capital abbey of the ample adherent apostolic circuitous of Haghpat, committed to the Holy Cross, began in 966-67 and was completed in 991. The axial arch rests on the four massive pillars in the ancillary walls. The alien walls are about absolutely covered by triangular niches. The alcove contains a adorn of Christ Pantocrator. The architectonics is complete and in its aboriginal form, afar from some 11th- and 12th-century restorations, including the ample gavit through which admission is acquired to the church. The plan of the gavit, congenital in the additional decade of the 13th century, differs clearly in appearance from the capital church. A ample narthex-type architectonics acclimated for meetings, teaching and funerary rituals is based on colloquial architectonics in wood, with the roof accurate on four pillars in the centre of the structure. Vaulting divides the autogenous of the roof into nine sections, the axial one of which (yerdik ) is the accomplished and dominates the autogenous space, as able-bodied as anecdotic it. The abbey is abutting by a alveolate access to a ample jamatoun (chapter house), in the aforementioned appearance as the gavit, congenital in the 13th century. Also affiliated to the abbey is the library, a bunched aboveboard architectonics dating aback to the 12th century

 The Sanahin Monastery consists of a ample accumulation of barrio on the plateau aloft the Debet gorge and skilfully chip into the absorbing abundance landscape. The barrio are laid out on two ellipsoidal axes, with their facades adverse west. The capital church, congenital in the 10th century, is the Cathedral of the Redeemer. The accent of the cross-shaped autogenous is on the axial basis and the accord amid the aboveboard abject and the annular dome. The axial arch in this case is amidst by four two-storey sacristies or chapels. To the west there is a four-columned gavit congenital in 1181. Its plan is that of a cantankerous inscribed in a square. Lighting is by agency of an breach in the centre of the dome. This is the ancient accepted archetype of this blazon of structure, which owes its origins to Armenian barbarian dwellings consisting of aboveboard apartment with four free-standing pillars acknowledging the roof and a axial aperture to acquiesce smoke to be dispersed

Haghpat abbey is on the added ancillary of Alaverdi. It's added of a battleground than Sanahin, but I wouldn't wish to accept amid them. Its abbey holds a achromatic adorn of Christ aloft the altar. Both Haghpat and Sanahin are ample complexes, that hosted accessories like a library, a banquet anteroom e.a. Khatchkars can aswell be found, not all in actual acceptable condition. The Haghpat circuitous is partly awkward by grass and flowers, a amusement to the eye in bounce time.

                                   really this two monasteries is beautiful world heritage site.