Albanian temple in Yukhari Kilsa village

Monument date:
XV c.
Placement /
Previous toponym:

In the village of Yukhari Kil­sa, Boyuk Garakilsa dist­rict, Pembak ma­hal. 

Placement /
Current toponym:

Boyuk Kilsa is called Gugark.

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Architec­ture

Current situation

The ruins of the fortress destro­yed by the Ar­me­nians re­main.

Information:

There is an ancient temple in the village. The temple belonging to the Albanian era was demolished by the Armenians and turned into a collective farm ware­house. Since it does not belong to them, they turned the temple into a warehouse. This shows that Armenians did not con­sider Albanian temples as theirs during the Soviet period.

Ashagi Kilsa vil­­lage, where the temple is located, was a Turkish-Oghuz homeland. The temple and the surrounding mo­numents confirm that the area is the his­torical home­land of Azer­baijan.

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