monastery
Amaras Monastery
Amaras, Khojavend district (Karabakh), Azerbaijan · Armenia & Georgia
39.684, 47.057
Tradition. The founding and the Mashtots school rest on later Armenian and Caucasian Albanian historiography. The 4th-century tomb of Grigoris is traditional.
Tradition credits Gregory the Illuminator with founding Amaras and says his grandson Grigoris, a missionary bishop, was buried here. Later tradition says Mesrop Mashtots opened one of the first schools teaching his new alphabet here. The current church is medieval.
Source stance: insider. Armenian and Albanian church histories.
People and groups named here
- Gregory the Illuminator (traditional founder)
- Grigoris (grandson of Gregory)
- Mesrop Mashtots (school, per tradition)
Sources
- Pleiades place 884113: Amaras
Pleiades Gazetteer (ISAW, NYU). Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Amaras Monastery (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
Further reading
Councils here
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