Western Azerbaijan Heritage

Guney village, Karvansaray district, in the territory of Ga­zakh-Sham­shad­dil sul­ta­nate.

Guney village was named Getashen from 3.01.1935, Kirants from 25.05.1967.

Architec­ture

On 25.05.1967, the name of the village of Gu­ney, located near the temple complex, was changed. After village was named Kirants, in all Armenian sources, the na­me of the temp­le was falsified and started to be written as “Kirants-vank”.

In the territory of Gazakh-Shamshaddil sultanate, near Guney village of Karvan­saray district, 12 km west of the village, the Albanian Christian temple is sur­rounded by a large fortress wall. Although the temple complex was once surrounded by a stone wall, this fortress wall is currently in a state of collapse. Karvansaray district and Guney village, where the temple is located, have been inhabited by Kipchak tribes since ancient times. The first mass influx of Arme­nians began here after the occupation of the region by Tsarist Russia at the be­ginning of the 19th century.

The territories of the Guney vil­lage have been the mother­land of the Turkic tribes since ancient times.