Monastery · Bayburt
Varzahan Monastery
Varzahan, was an Armenian church founded in the 12th century near village Uğrak (formerly Varzahan), 10 km northwest of Bayburt, in eastern Turkey.
Varzahan (Armenian: Վարզահան վանք, Turkish: Uğrak Kiliseleri or Varzahan Kiliseleri), was an Armenian church founded in the 12th century near village Uğrak (formerly Varzahan), 10 km northwest of Bayburt, in eastern Turkey. After the Armenian genocide in 1915, it was demolished sometime between the 1920s and the mid-1950s.
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