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Chapel of Dzordzor

Chapel of Dzordzor Chapel of Dzordzor - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The Chapel of Dzordzor (, ), is part of an Armenian monastery located in Maku County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran, on Zangmar River near the village of Baron. The monastery had its heyday in the fourteenth century before being abandoned and destroyed in the early seventeenth century, when Shah Abbas I decided to displace the local Armenians. Read more on Wikipedia

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