Surp Marinos Monastery

St. Marinos monastery (Srkhouvank)
Սուրբ Մարինոս վանք (Սրխուվանք)
Basic information
Location Turkey Gürpınar District, Van province
Geographic coordinates 38°20′06″N 43°19′58″E / 38.3350°N 43.3328°E / 38.3350; 43.3328Coordinates: 38°20′06″N 43°19′58″E / 38.3350°N 43.3328°E / 38.3350; 43.3328
State Turkey
Region Eastern Anatolia Region
Status ceased functioning as a monastery in 1915
Architectural description
Architectural type Armenian church
Architectural style Armenian
Completed 12th century

St. Marinos (Armenian: Սուրբ Մարինոս վանք) is a ruined Armenian Orthodox monastery in the Gürpınar district of Van Province of Turkey, to the southeast of Lake Van.

History

The monastery is situated on a slope of a mountain overlooking the wide and fertile lower section of the valley of the Hoşap, now known as the Gürpınar plain and formerly called Hayots Dzor (Armenian: Հայոց Ձոր) meaning: Valley of the Armenians. The date of the foundation of the St. Marinos monastery is not known, and the crudity of its construction makes its buildings difficult to date. It originally had the alternative name of Srkhouvank. It was founded to house a community of nuns and was dedicated to the female saints Marinos and Theodora. It had an active scriptorium during the second half of the 16th century: in Yerevan's Matenadaran museum there exist five manuscripts that are known to have originated in the convent.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ Thierry, J.M. 'Monastères arméniens du Vaspurakan V', in: Revue des études arméniennes 8 (1971) pp.215-277, on Surp Marinos pp.218-221)
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