Geghard is a medieval Armenian monastery in the Kotayk province, east of Yerevan, in a gorge of the Azat River, partly carved out of the rock of the mountain. Its name means monastery of the spear, in reference to the spear that wounded Jesus and that was once kept there, according to tradition. Earlier there was a sacred spring in a cave where a chapel was built in the early centuries of Christianity. The main church was completed in the early thirteenth century, during a period of Armenian revival under the Zakarid princes, and rock-cut chambers and tombs were added later. The monastery was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000, together with the Upper Azat Valley.
Before and after
- from 1213 to 1221Fifth Crusade
- 27 July 1214Battle of Bouvines
- c. 1215Birth of Louis IX of France
- from 1215 to 1563Shan States
- 1215Construction of Geghard
- 15 June 1215Magna Carta
- 23 September 1215Birth of Kublai Khan
- 1218Founding of University of Salamanca
- from 1219 to 1258Mongol invasion of Persia and Mesopotamia
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