Ktuts monastery
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title:
Ktuts monastery
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Ktuts monastery is an abandoned 15th century Armenian monastery on the small island of Ktuts (Çarpanak) in Lake Van, Vaspurakan. According to tradition, the monastery was founded in the 4th century by Saint Gregory the Illuminator, after his return from Rome. It contained a hand of John the Baptist, which was kept in a reliquary now held at the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem. The first historical records referring to the monastery date to the 15th century, when it was known for its scriptori
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Former armenian monastery on an island in Lake Van, Turkey
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktuts_monastery
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2023-12-08T22:17:28Z
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