Eghegnamor Monastery

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Monastery of Eghegnamor Եղեգնամոր վանք
Religion
Affiliation	Armenian Apostolic Church
Region	Armenian upland
Status	ceased functioning as a monastery in 1920
Location
Location	Kars province Armenian highland
State	Turkey
Shown within Turkey
Geographic coordinates	40°07′25″N 42°54′48″E / 40.1235°N 42.9133°E / 40.1235; 42.9133
Architecture
Type	Armenian church
Style	Armenian
Completed	11th century

Eghegnamor monastery is a well-preserved medieval Armenian monastery in the middle of Çengilli village (formerly Eghegnamor) village near Kağızman city of modern Turkey.^[1] Its great bulk and solidity still dominating the small, crudely built, flat-roofed, houses of the village. .

Word formation

Eghegnamor (Armenian: Եղեգնամոր) is a historical name of the settlement laying around the monastery. Eghegnamor in Armenian for reedy place. Çengilli is the current name of the village. It is derived from its 19th-century name, Chanli, which means "village of the bell-tower". The church is also known as Eghegnamor in Armenian literature. In another sources this monastery called as

History

Eghegnamor (Çengelli) lay in a district of Armenia known as

. The village's present inhabitants, like most of the villages in this district, are Kurds - probably recent immigrants from either Erzurum or Doğubayazit. They use the church as a communal barn.

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