Bagnayr monastery
Ruins · Turkey
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 989
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 40.513, 43.484
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: It was "one of the most renowned monastic complexes in medieval Armenia".
History
The Bagnayr Monastery is a monastery in Kozluca, Kars, 7 kilometers northwest of Ani, built in the 11th century CE. It was "one of the most renowned monastic complexes in medieval Armenia". The monastery was standing at the end of the 19th century, but is now almost completely in ruins.