| TegherTegher village is situated on the southern slope of Aragats Mt. at the altitude of 1,650 meters above the sea level. Tegher is a half-desolated village, whose people live here only during warm seasons and in winter descend to a small Proshyan town in Yerevan suburbs.
There are only a dozen of houses, destroyed chapel and a unique church Surb Mariam Astvatsatsin.
This is a church of a sober cupola hall, build from dark-grey basalt in 1213 with a gavit, built on in 1221, and two chapels erected on its roof. It is a very beautiful complex, unlike any other by its architecture. The complex was built at the behest of Mamakhatun, wife of Prince Vache Vachutian, and the architect, according to an inscription on a column of the gavit, was the priest Aghbayrik.
This is a church of a sober cupola hall, build from dark-grey basalt in 1213 with a gavit, built on in 1221, and two chapels erected on its roof. It is a very beautiful complex, unlike any other by its architecture. The complex was built at the behest of Mamakhatun, wife of Prince Vache Vachutian, and the architect, according to an inscription on a column of the gavit, was the priest Aghbayrik.
Not far from the church, there is a huge radio-telescope, the biggest telescope of this kind in the former Soviet Union. Near the telescope one can see a huge mirror plate – an unfinished solar energy station.
In the western part of the village, one can find the remains of a Bronze Age cyclopean fort, beside which an underground passage was recently discovered leading to a neighboring spring.
The place is really marvelous! But there is one more thing that is worth coming to Tegher – stars over Aragats… In clear nights it seems that you can touch the stars, just stretch out your hand!
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