Tandzaver
39.35027777777846.328333333333Koordinaten: 39 ° 21 '1 " N, 46 ° 19 ' 42" O
Tandzaver ( Տանձավեր Armenian ) is a village and rural community ( hamaynkner ) with about 200 inhabitants in the südarmenischen Syunik province. In the center is an Armenian Apostolic Church of 1705.
Location
Tandzaver, located at about 1600 meters altitude in a densely wooded valley on a dirt road ( H45 ), which leads from the monastery of Tatev southeast to Kapan. The barely driven " Old - Tatev road " serves mainly as a link between the villages in the valley, while the north-south distance traffic drives on the M2 between Goris and Kapan. From Tatev the road traverses a ridge with a summit of 1970 meters to the first village Aghvani and reached three kilometers further Tandzaver. The next town to the south is called Verin Khotanan.
Townscape
In the census of 2001, the official population was given as 263. In January 2009, lived according to official statistics in Tandzaver 214 inhabitants.
The consistently simply built farmhouses are surrounded by vegetable gardens and apple trees. Between them lie barn and cowsheds. The settlement extends along the road on the mountain side below wooded hilltops and above the valley floor used as pasture.
Just off the road, the 1705 dated Surb Hripsime Church ( " Holy Hripsime " ) was retained. In the three-aisled basilica divided two massive pillars in each row, which are interconnected by arches, the space in a broad high nave and two narrower, lower aisles. They are covered by a single gable roof, its stone slabs are overgrown with grass. This building type is characteristic of the built in southern Armenia in the 17th century rural churches. Especially in the area Sangesur archaic Pfeilerbasiliken were built in the early Christian style. For long-drawn type with two pillars pairs also the church in Old Chndsoresk ( 1665), the monasteries Haranc Anapat include (founded in 1613 and 1658 destroyed by an earthquake ), Mec Anapat ( " Great Hermitage ", then 1662 new inter alia, in the province of Syunik founded ), and in the province Wajoz Dzor the mother of God Church of Jeghegis (1703 dated) and the monastery church of Shativank ( 1655 ).
The outer walls are made of rough-hewn basalt and tuff that are walled up in horizontal layers. An architectural decoration does not exist. The only entrance in the middle of the south wall is surrounded by a pointed arch. The interior walls are plastered. In addition to the semi-circular, with a Bema ( platform) raised altar apse are narrow rectangular side rooms. Half-height partitions in the lunette between the rear pillars and the west gable show that the church has been used recently as a barn or warehouse. A similar, worse preserved church with the entrance in the west is the neighboring village of Verin Khotanan.