Khor Virap

Monastery
3686 people visited sight

lovely monastery and pilgrimage site it is where Gregory the Illuminator was imprisoned here for 13 years in a small dark cave under one of the buildings here by King Tiridates III of Armenia- you are also only a kilometre from the Turkish border and looking across to the Iranian border too

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