Amaras Monastery ( Armenian : ?????? ???? ) is an Armenian monastery in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, near the village of Sos in the Martuni Province of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic , de jure in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan . It was a prominent religious and educational center in medieval Armenia. History According to medieval chroniclers Faustus Byuzand and Movses Kaghankatvatsi , St. Gregory the Illuminator founded the Amaras Monastery at the start of the fourth century. Amaras was the burial place of St. Gregory the Illuminator's grandson, St. Grigoris (died in 338). A tomb built for his remains still survives under the apse of the nineteenth-century church of St. Grigoris. Amaras' temple of Saint Grigoris At the beginning of the fifth century Mesrop Mashtots , the inventor of the Armenian Alphabet , established in Amaras the first-ever school that used his script. The monastery was plundered in the thirteenth century by the Mongols , destroyed in 1387 during Tamerlane 's inv Express yourself. Organize your knowledge. Expand your mind. Discover the world. Revolvy connects you with interesting topics, lists and quizzes. Choose from hundreds of quizzes that test your knowledge. Search through millions of topics. Create a your personalized library of topics, and discover topics that others are following.
