Genceser Manastırı

Genceser Manastırı ya da Gandzasar Manastırı (Azerice: Gəncəsər məbədi, Ermenice: Գանձասար), Azerbaycan'ın Dağlık Karabağ bölgesinde (fiilen Dağlık Karabağ Cumhuriyeti'nin Ağdere Rayonu bölgesinde) bulunan Alban^[4][5][6] manastırı. 1836 yılında Rusya İmparatorunun fermanı Alban Katolikliğini iptal ederek tamamen Ermeni Apostolik Kilisesinin yönetimine geçirmiştir.^[7]

Genceser Manastırı

Temel bilgiler
Koordinatlar	40°03′25″K 46°31′52″D
İnanç	Ermeni Apostolik Kilisesi
Mimari
Tamamlanma	1238[1]
Özellikler
Genişlik	kilise: 123 metre (404 ft)[2] gavit: 118 metre (387 ft)[3]

Gandzasar manastır

1991-94 Dağlık Karabağ Savaşı sonucunda Gandazasarın yerleştiği arazi Ermenistan Silahlı Kuvvetleri'nin desteğindeki^[8] Ermeni güçlerin kontrolü altındadır.

Kaynakça

1. Mkrtchyan 1989, s. 14.
2. Mkrtchyan 1989, s. 16.
3. Mkrtchyan 1989, s. 18.
4. Richard G. Hovannisian. The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, Macmillan, 1997, p. 39, ISBN 0-312-10168-6, 9780312101688, quote: Throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and until 1815, there was also a catholicos of Caucasian Albania, resident at Gandzasar in Karabagh.
5. Agop J. Hacikyan, Gabriel Basmajian, Edward S. Franchuk, Nourhan Ouzounian. The Heritage of Armenian Literature 14 Kasım 2012 tarihinde Wayback Machine sitesinde arşivlendi., Wayne State University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-8143-3023-1, 9780814330234, p. 169:"After the Arab domination ended, the Caucasian Albanian Church became a diocese of the Armenian Church and the name Aghvan survived only in the name of this diocese associated with the church and monastery complex at Gandzasar, which was the See of the Catholicate of the Caucasian Albanian Church"
6. Rafik Kurbanov, Erjan Kurbanov, "Religion and Politics in the Caucasus" in Michael Bordeaux, The Politics of Religion in Russia and the New States of Eurasia, M. E. Sharpe, 1995, p. 230, ISBN 1-56324-357-1, 9781563243578.
7. Yo'av Karny. Highlanders: A Journey to the Caucasus in Quest of Memory, Macmillan, 2000, ISBN 0-374-22602-4, 9780374226022, p. 384: "Eight years after the beginning of Armenian migration, in 1836, the czarist government dissolved the Albanian Church district and brought it under the complete control of the Armenian national church."
8. Ambrosio, Thomas (2001). Irredentism: Ethnic Conflict and International Politics (İngilizce). Greenwood Publishing Group. s. 150. ISBN 0-275-97260-7, ISBN 978-0-275-97260-8. 14 Kasım 2012 tarihinde kaynağından arşivlendi. Erişim tarihi: 8 Haziran 2009. Convincing evidence points also to the direct engagement of Armenian (from the Republic of Armenia) armed forces in the fighting, and to their continued regular stationing in Karabagh