HERITAGE RECORD · 960

Monastery of Geghard and the Upper Azat Valley

格加尔德修道院和上阿扎特山谷

The official record, selection criteria and sourced cultural context.

World Heritage record

The monastery of Geghard contains a number of churches and tombs, most of them cut into the rock, which illustrate the very peak of Armenian medieval architecture. The complex of medieval buildings is set into a landscape of great natural beauty, surrounded by towering cliffs at the entrance to the Azat Valley.

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Wikidata reference

QIDQ17155656 ↗

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Selection criteria

This property was inscribed under the following World Heritage Convention criteria.

(ii)An important interchange of human values in architecture, technology, arts, town planning or landscape design.

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