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“We conducted two trips to Georgia and three to Western Armenia,” said Samvel Karapetyan the director of the organization which investigates Armenian architecture. According to him the mission of their trips was to examine and find out Armenian monuments and to measure, to photograph and copy Armenian lithographs.

S. Karapetyan said that they edit the results of the trips to publish books on their basis. He said that next year they plan to publish a book devoted to the investigations carried out in Akhalckha. “The most interesting thing was that we found a khachkar from 1475 in Akhalckha,” said S. Karapetyan.

He also said that their group found many khachkars in Akhalckha from 14th and 15th centuries, but the lithographs of which are unknown and were never published. Unfortunately he mentioned that Armenian churches and khachkars are being destroyed in Georgia. During the reconstructions of the churches they destroy Armenian values.
S. Karapetyan said that they found an Armenian khachkar from 927 in the Western Armenia. And he continued saying that there are many khachkars from 14-15 centuries in the Western Armenia.

The expert mentioned that “Mecopa” monastery is completely destroyed. He said that they met the Kurd; he was in the group of those who destroyed the monastery. The Kurd told the story of how they destroyed it in order to find gold.
S. Karapetyan said that next year they will visit the places in Western Armenia, Tbilisi and Arcakh which they did not manage to see yet. He said that he saw 80% of Arcakh monuments, so next year he will complete the list and publish a full volume of the monuments in Arcakh.