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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Monastery of Geghard and the Upper Azat Valley' has mentioned 'Monastery' in the following places:
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| Geghard (Armenian: xd4xb3xd5xa5xd5xb2xd5xa1xd6x80xd5xa4, meaning "spear") is a medieval monastery in the Kotayk province of Armenia, being partially carved out of the adjacent mountain, surrounded by cliffs. | WIKI |
| 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 |
| The monastery had thus been originally named Ayrivank (xd4xb1xd5xb5xd6x80xd5xabxd5xbexd5xa1xd5xb6xd6x84), meaning "the Monastery of the Cave". | WIKI |
| The name commonly used for the monastery today, Geghard, or more fully Geghardavank (xd4xb3xd5xa5xd5xb2xd5xa1xd6x80xd5xa4xd5xa1xd5xbexd5xa1xd5xb6xd6x84), meaning "the Monastery of the Spear", originates from the spear which had wounded Jesus at the Crucifixion, allegedly brought to Armenia by Apostle Jude, called here Thaddeus, and stored amongst many other relics. | WIKI |
| The spectacular towering cliffs surrounding the monastery are part of the Azat River gorge, and are included together with the monastery in the World Heritage Site listing. | WIKI |
| Some of the churches within the monastery complex are entirely dug out of the cliff rocks, others are little more than caves, while others are elaborate structures, with both architecturally complex walled sections and rooms deep inside the cliff. | WIKI |
| Entrance to Geghard Monastery | WIKI |
| The monastery was founded in the 4th century, according to tradition by Gregory the Illuminator. | WIKI |
| The first monastery was destroyed by Arabs in the 9th century. | WIKI |
| According to Armenian historians of the 4th, 8th and 10th centuries the monastery comprised, apart from religious buildings, well-appointed residential and service installations. | WIKI |
| Ayrivank suffered greatly in 923 from Nasr, a vice-regent of an Arabian caliph in Armenia, who plundered its valuable property, including unique manuscripts, and burned down the magnificent structures of the monastery. | WIKI |
| The gavit, partly free-standing, partly carved in the cliff, dates to before 1225, and a series of chapels hewn into the rock dates from the mid-13th century following the purchase of the monastery by Prince Prosh Khaghbakian, vassal of the Zakarians and founder of the Proshian principality. | WIKI |
| All around the monastery are caves and khachkars. | WIKI |
| The monastery was defunct, the main church used to shelter the flocks of the Karapapakh nomads in winter, until resettled by a few monks from Ejmiatsin after the Russian conquest. | WIKI |
| The monastery was famous because of the relics that it housed. | WIKI |
| A special case was made for it in 1687, now kept in the museum of Echmiadzin monastery. | WIKI |
| Today the monastery complex is located at the end of the paved road, and the walk up from the parking lot is lined with women selling sweet bread, sheets of dried fruit (fruit lavash), sweet sujukh (grape molasses covered strings of walnuts) and various souvenirs. | WIKI |
| The one- and two-storey residential and service structures situated on the perimeter of the monastery's yard were repeatedly reconstructed, sometimes from their foundations, as happened in the 17th century and in 1968xe2x80x931971. | WIKI |
| There are many often richly ornamented khachkars cut on rock surfaces and on the walls of the structures or put up on the grounds of Geghard in memory of a deceased or in commemoration of someone's donation to the monastery. | WIKI |
| Engraved crosses on the cave church wall in the Geghard Monastery. | WIKI |
| The chapel of S. Gregory the Illuminator (formerly the Chapel of the Mother of God xe2x80x93 St Astvatzatzin), built before 1177, stands high above the road, a hundred meters away from the entrance to the monastery. | WIKI |
| Jamatun/first rock-cut chamber 17th-century service buildings (foreground) Arched entrance to the caves adjacent to the monastery. | WIKI |
| Khachkars inset in rock outcropping Geghard in the snow Cupola on arches wall carvings Copies of khachars at the Armenian cemetery in Julfa, Nakhichevan destroyed by Azerbaijan Column in the Geghard Monastery, Armenia Geghard Column, Geghard Monastery, Armenia Geghard Monastery Ceiling, Armenia | WIKI |
| At the early period, the Monastery was called Ayrivank (Monastery in the Cave) because of its rock-cut construction. | UNESCO |
| The monastery was founded, according to tradition by St. Gregory the Illuminator, and was built following the adoption of Christianity as a state religion in Armenia (beginning of the 4th century AD). | UNESCO |
| A defensive wall encircled the monastery complex in the 12th to 13th centuries. | UNESCO |
| The spear was kept in the Monastery for 500 years. | UNESCO |
| The authenticity of the group is high, not least because the property has been in continuous use as a monastery for many centuries. | UNESCO |
| The designs for water isolation of the rock-hewn part and comprehensive interventions for Geghard Monastery were drafted in order to strengthen the complex. | UNESCO |
| The Ministry of Culture of Armenia, with its specialized units acting as authorized republican bodies, and the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church with its specialized units and the diocese as owner, as well as non-governmental, nature protection units and people interested in Armenian heritage conservation are engaged in the protection of the monastery complex. | UNESCO |