Khor Virab

It must be a good weather to come to this place. Standing in the deep pit monastery looking at the Attella Mountain, what is poetry and distance... Maybe it is the eternal pain in the hearts of Armenians, the snowy mountains are still in the hands of the Turks. The signal in the monastery will show the signal of Turkey! There are two pits! The pits are small and need to be patiently queued.

Deep pit monastery has a pivotal role in Armenia, geographical location on a high mountain, hatching plain, backed by snowy mountains, atmosphere quiet, thousands of years, countless practitioners here introspection practice, nurture Armenia's unique religious culture.

The tower in front is the Hollivrap monastery. Here must be introduced Gregory. He is an Armenian missionary pioneer. In the third century AD, the Armenian king ordered the cult Gregory to be put in a dungeon, one of which is 13 years. When Tiridates III was seriously ill and there was no medical treatment, it was Gregory who made him reborn. So in 301 AD, the Armenian king prescribed religion as a state religion, and was the first country in the world to make religion a state religion. The entrance to the Gregory cellar was held that year. Many people did not think that the reason for Gregory's survival was because a woman kept delivering food and water to him through the secret passage.

The monastery with a very good view, you can look at it when you climb the top of the mountain, especially when the sun is setting, the snow-capped mountains opposite originally belonged to the Armenian people, but they were forced to cede to the Georgian next door. What would the Armenians think about it?

Christianity was considered pagan in many countries when it was first born, as was Armenia. Legend has it that after the first leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church (Armenian Apostolic Church), the Enlightener Gregory (Gregory the Illuminator), was an Armenian nobleman, his father Anag was executed for the assassination of Armenian King Khosrov II. St Gergory fled to Cappadocia, now in Turkey, where he was taken in and raised by Bishop St. Philmilien. St Gergory Returning to Armenian missionaries, who originated in Persia's Zoroastrian religion, St Gergory, who was considered pagan, was held by the then king Tiridates (Trdat) III in a deep well on a hill, leaving him to die. A villager who was influenced by St Gergory and believed in Christ secretly fed him every day, so he survived. Thirteen years later, the king was sick, and no one in the country could heal, and at this time the news of St Gergory's death came to the king, who thought that a miracle had been found and ordered the release of St Gergory, and the release of St Gergory cured the king's disease, and the king believed in Christ. And Christianity was designated as the state religion. So in 301 AD Armenia became the first country in the world to believe in Christ. In 642 AD, a monastery was built in memory of St Gergory, Khor Virap, on the deep well where he was held. Khor Virap means deep well in Armenian.