CHURCHES BEING DESTROYED AND RENAMED IN AZERBAIJAN

DeFacto Agency, Armenia
Oct 18 2006

The archeological expedition to the Khanlar region controlled by
Azerbaijan has submitted a list of the Armenian churches subject
to destruction for ratification. The expedition head, Azerbaijan
State Economic University Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences
Abbas Seidov made a list of the region’s Armenian churches having no
historical and cultural significance in his opinion. Seidov thinks the
churches should be destroyed. At the same time the expedition headed
by Seidov "for the first time" found out the Life-Giving Cross Church
of VII century and "called" it the Albanian temple of Gharabulagh,
which in Turkic means "a Black spring".

In recent months a few Armenian churches built in ÕVI-ÕVIII
centuries have been destroyed in the Khanlar, Shahumyan and
Dashkesan regions controlled by Azerbaijan. In reply to the DE FACTO
Information-Analytics Agency’s appeal and protests it was stated
that… the Lutheran churches situated in the regional center of
Khanlar had not been touched.

DE FACTO Information-Analytics agency urges to aid to preserve the
Armenian Christian architecture’s monuments on the territory controlled
by Azerbaijan.

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