Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Monastery of Geghard and the Upper Azat Valley' has mentioned 'Chapel' in the following places:
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While the main chapel was built in 1215, the monastery complex was founded in the 4th century by Gregory the Illuminator at the site of a sacred spring inside a cave. | WIKI |
Contents 1 History 2 Complex 2.1 The Katoghike Chapel 2.2 The vestry, gavit 2.3 Rock-cut church with spring 2.4 The zhamatun 2.5 Rock-cut church past the zhamatun 2.6 Upper Jhamatun 2.7 Chapel of S. Grigor 3 Sources 4 Image gallery 5 References 6 External links | WIKI |
The Katoghike Chapel[edit] | WIKI |
The entrances to a small chapel and to Astvatsatsin church have rectangular platbands connected by two relief crosses. | WIKI |
Cut on the portals of the chapel are sirens (fantasy harpy-like birds with women's crowned heads) and on the church walls there appear human figures with their elbows bent, wearing long attires and having nimbuses around their heads. | WIKI |
The chapel, rectangular in plan and having a horseshoe-shaped apse, is adjoined, from the east and from the northeast, by passages and annexes hewed at various levels and even one on top of another. | WIKI |
Traces of plaster with remnants of dark frescoes indicate there were murals inside the chapel. | WIKI |
St. Astvatsatsin (Holy Mother of God) chapel is the most ancient preserved monument outside the ramparts and is located on the western side. | UNESCO |