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Monastery of Geghard and the Upper Azat Valley

Armenia
Date of Inscription: 2000
Criteria: (ii)
Core zone: 2.7 ha
Kotayk' Region, near the village of Goght
N40 9 32 E44 47 48
Ref: 960

Brief Description

The monastery of Geghard contains a number of churches and tombs, most of them cut into the rock, which illustrate the very peak of Armenian medieval architecture. The complex of medieval buildings is set into a landscape of great natural beauty, surrounded by towering cliffs at the entrance to the Azat Valley.

Justification for Inscription

Criterion (ii): The monastery of Geghard, with its remarkable rock-cut churches and tombs, is an exceptionally well preserved and complete example of medieval Armenian monastic architecture and decorative art, with many innovatory features which had a profound influence on subsequent developments in the region.

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