Hogots monastery

The Hogots Monastery (Armenian Հոգոց վանք Hogots vank, Armenian Monastery of the Holy Spirit ) was an Armenian monastery in the western part of the district Gürpınar at Van in Turkey today. It was located five kilometers northwest of the village Özlüce.

The monastery was founded in 528 was one of the few significant monasteries of the district Antzevasiq in historic Armenia, who was part of the province Vaspurakan. In the seventeenth century it was the most important religious center of the district Norduz in Van vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. The priest Vahan (Armenian Վահան Քահանայ ) was the last known priest of the monastery before the genocide of 1917. It fell almost one hundred Armenian women and children who had been trapped there, up in flames.

• Holy Spirit Monastery
• Armenian Apostolic Monastery
• Former monastery in Turkey
• Monastery ( 6th century )
• Founded 528
• Church buildings in Turkey
• Church building of the Armenian Apostolic Church
• Destroyed in the 1940s
• Van Province