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Aghperig Monastery

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Aghperig Monastery

St. Aghperig monastery (variously Աղբերկայ Aghperga or Ս. Աղբերիկ Վանք Aghprig Monastery), also known as Beyaz Kilise, is a medieval Armenian monastic complex in the Sasun Mountains of eastern Turkey, in the historic Sasun region. Built around the year 300 AD, it was used until the Armenian genocide

after 1915 and then fell into ruins. It is located 56 kilometres West of Lake Van in the north of the Sassun mountains in the Sason district in the province of Bitlis. The monastery was built above a natural spring from where it gets its name Sourp Aghperig (Holy Spring).

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