Armenian Church of the Holy Apostles, Kars: the drum with conical roof
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| RIBApix ref no |
RIBA27618 |
| Artist/Photographer | Hance, Dennis
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| Country | Turkey |
| City | Kars |
| Subject Date | 0925 |
| Image Date | 1997 |
| View | Exterior |
| Medium | 35mm Transparency |
| Library Reference | DHT488 |
| Orientation | Landscape |
| Colour / B&W |
Colour |
| Credit |
Dennis Hance / RIBA Collections
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| Notes |
NOTES:
Also known as the Cathedral of Kars, this Armenian church was converted into a mosque by the Ottoman Turks in 1579 and later served as a Russian orthodox church, the Armeninian cathedral, and was used as a warehouse from the 1930s. It housed a small museum of Kars' antiquities from 1963 until the late 1970s, then stood derelict for about two decades until its conversion into a mosque in 1998.
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Subject tags
churches, mosques, arcades