Karvajar (Kalbajar) province

M.Hasratian has already made the exhaustive architectural description of this compact church. It remains only to add that the height of the church is 10.40 m, its outside walls are buried in the debris and ground, which is almost 1 m deep and piled over the ages. Dating of the church by 1180, and the assignment the construction to prince Hassan Vakhtangian seems rather doubtful, as one of the dated khachkars fastened into the church wall was carved in 1190 only. Later dating (by the XIII cent.) proposed by M. Hasratian is not sufficiently substantiated. Measurement of the floor marks made in the site indicated that the floor of the church is 4 m higher that the floor of the so-called "Temple" situated next to the church, 1.5 m south of it. It shows that the area was much steeper before the construction of the "Temple" in 1211. While building it was smoothened by terraces.
As a proof we may indicate the northern wall of the "Temple" serving a basement for the smooth terrace which supports the northern wall of the Little Domed Church, built in the centre of the terrace. Hence it follows that the church could have been constructed only after 1211, upon the completion of works connected with the "Temple". It also seems that obvious cracks in the walls reaching 15-20 cm (the church is damaged) occurred as a result of human interference in the ground layers.