Tag : Ani

Ani was the site of a fortress and ancient town in Greater Armenia. The Armenian Bagratuni dynasty settled at Ani. The impressive number of churches and monasteries in the Armenian capital gave it the name “city of a thousand and one churches”.

Vahé Achikian

The church of Sourp Sarkis is located in the once-armenian town of *Digor*. Digor exists nowadays in the area of Ani, about 16 km to the Southwest, and this church is still there though mostly ruined.
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