Azerbaijan Airs Footage From Nation's Khudavang Monastery Vandalized By Armenia (PHOTO)
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
KALBAJAR, Azerbaijan, September 3. One of the
architectural monuments subjected to Armenian aggression from 1992
to 2020 is the Khudavang Monastery Complex in Azerbaijan's Kalbajar
district, Trend
reports.
During the Armenian occupation, illegal "restoration" work was
carried out in the Khudavang Monastery with the support of the
Armenian Apostolic Church and funding from the Armenian
government.
These so-called restorations included falsifications to the Arzu
Khatun and Hasan the Great churches, as well as other buildings
within the complex. Following the liberation of the region,
Armenian priests and monks, with the help of foreign specialists,
illegally removed ancient frescoes from the site and smuggled them
out of Azerbaijan.
Additionally, during the occupation, the bell tower of the
Khudavang complex, stone crosses in the shape of the tree of life,
and tombstones were also looted.
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