Saral Cemetery Monuments

Monument date:
XVIII-XIX c.
Placement /
Previous toponym:

It is located in Saralli village of Sonlarar Ha­mamli (Spitak) district of Bo­yuk Garakilsa Alexandropol uezd of Iravan governorate.

Placement /
Current toponym:

In 1991, the na­me was chan­ged to Nor Khachakar.

Classification:

Architec­ture

Current situation

In Armenia, mo­re than 500 cemeteries be­lon­ging to Azer­baijanis, such as Agha­da­da, Ashagi Shorja, Gullu­bu­lag, Saral ce­meteries, were destroyed.

Information:

Saral village was one of the largest villa­ges in the Boyuk Garakilsa area of Ale­xan­dropol uezd of Iravan governorate. Later it was part of Hamamli (Spitak) district. It is located 7 km east of the district center, on the right bank of Pam­bak river. There are monuments from different periods of Azerbaijan's history in the Saral cemetery. The first name of the village was Saralli. In November-De­cember 1988, the inhabitants of the vil­lage - Azerbaijanis, were forcibly depor­ted by the Armenian state. After that, the village cemetery was destroyed by Ar­me­nian vandals. In 1991, they changed the name of the village to Nor Kha­chakar.

The patterned sto­nes, figures, statues on the gra­ves in the Saral cemetery are proof that the country is the ancient land of Azer­baijan.

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