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Arqakaghni monastery (Armenian: Արքակաղնի վանք), was an Armenian monastery in the western part of Adana province of modern Turkey, which lies 9 km southeast of Mamestia, a city in the east of Cilician plain.[1]
Arqakaghni monastery Արքակաղնի վանք | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Armenian Apostolic Church |
Province | Adana province |
Region | Mediterranean |
Ecclesiastical or organizational status | Destroyed in 1915 |
Status | Ceased functioning as a monastery in 1915 |
Location | |
Location | |
State | Turkey |
Geographic coordinates | 36.9112°N 35.6953°E |
Architecture | |
Type | Church |
Style | Armenian |
Completed | 1122 AD |
The monastery has two different names:[2]
The monastery consisted of several churches, and lay in a forest of oaks, plane and olive trees. The main church was called as Armenian: Surp Astvatzatzin which in Armenian language means Saint Mother of God.
Arqakaghni monastery was founded in 1122 near Mopsuestia, an ancient city in Cilician Armenia, as the seat of Mopsuestia's bishop.[3] It also served as:
Some medieval Armenian historians (listed below) eulogized Arqakaghni monastery:
Medieval Armenian author and priest Vardan Aygektsi also studied there.[7]
In 1206–08 Arqakaghni monastery became archbishop David Arqakaghneci's residence. Buried at the monastery were Levon II, his father Stephane (Armenian: Ստեփանե), Grigor Apirat.,[8] and the Catholicos of the Armenian Church.
A devastating earthquake in 1269 damaged the monastery, but in 1284 the monastery was reconstructed and continued functioning until the Armenian massacres in Adana province when it was damaged again. During the Armenian genocide of 1915, it was destroyed completely by the Turks.
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