EFFECT OF RELIGION CHANGE ON ARMENIAN RELIGIOUS SPACES CASE STUDY: S.STEPHANOS MONASTERY

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NEJADEBRAHIMI AHAD; POURJAFAR MOHAMMADREZA

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Journal: Honarhaye Ziba- Honarhaye Memari va SHahrsazi Year:2009 | Volume:- | Issue:39 Page(s): 69-80

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EFFECT OF RELIGION CHANGE ON ARMENIAN RELIGIOUS SPACES CASE STUDY: S.STEPHANOS MONASTERY

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NEJADEBRAHIMI AHAD | POURJAFAR MOHAMMADREZA | Issue Writer Certificate

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FIRE TEMPLE (ATASHKADE)Q3

MONASTERYQ2

S.STEPHANOSQ3

ARMENIANQ3

CHAR TAGQ3

JOLFAQ3

Abstract

he absolute date of presence of ARMENIANs in the place which is called locally Armenia today is not clear. In the inscriptions remained from ancient Assyria in Mesopotamia and Biston of Achaemenid era, it is mention that exist after the Achaemenid era. They have social culture tendency toward Romans and Persians in various situation of their history. Sometime they have ten dency to west (Romans) and east (Persian). The official present religion of ARMENIANs is Gariquri. Gariquri is a branch of Christianity. ARMENIANs religion was like Persians such as Mehr, Mitra and Zoroaster before the adapt Christianity in 301. Their religion before Christianity was similar to Persians. ARMENIAN architecture was affected of Persian, Greek and Roman architecture because of its politic and geographic situation. Early Armenia religion architecture match was very similar to the Persians, in order to their same religions belief. Before Christianity their religious architecture was Mehr, Mitra temples and Atashkade (fire temple), CHAR TAG. ARMENIAN after adapting Christianity changes their places of wor ship accordingly. Their early religious building known as "Char tag" (a dome supported on four arches) or "fire temple" (Attashked). Therefore many of their temples have to be converted to church. One of these altered "Fire temple" is St.stephanos MONASTERY. This MONASTERY ts located 19 km west from of JOLFA city. This area named "Ghezel Vank" in southern riverside of Arras. The name of MONASTERY adapted from st.stephanos (first Christianity martyr). Also famed "klisa kharabe" between habitants. It has worship hall and belfry with a boundary wall at present. There is no reference and absolute date of establishment of this religious complex. The oldest part of MONASTERY has a squared plan building that is located in the middle and east of complex and known as "Old Church". This building has stone structure that stone setting is different from other parts of MONASTERY. The main plan has a dome at center that a porch surrounded it. In this paper the authors believe that the bases of present Old Church structure, is the old "Fire Temple". Fire temple (Atashkadeh) used as Zoroastrian wor ship places Persia that poured all over the Iran (Parthian and Sassanid dynasty). But the only issue which is suspicious to related this structure to the Sassanid dynasty is the type of construc tion methods of applying Pendantive. Pendantive is one of the methods in converting square to cir cle in dome construction. The Persian dome in Sassanid dynasty have Squinch (a type of con verting corner square to circle). According to some of the historian and archeologist ideas this type of squinch was not popular in Sassanid period in Persian. But the presence researches indicate that this type of construction was common in Armenia and Byzantine. The paper would analysis the various ideas and views about this issue and finally it would conclude that ARMENIANs were already Zoroaster and they had "fire temple" as their place of worship and later on after becoming Christian, they have converted the "Fire temple" to a church.

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SEMA AND ITS RELATED SPACES EFFECTS ON FRAMEWORK, ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN SPACES OF CHALAPIOGHLU KHANGAH (ZANJAN,IRAN)

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NEJADEBRAHIMI, AHAD, & POURJAFAR, MOHAMMADREZA. (2009). EFFECT OF RELIGION CHANGE ON ARMENIAN RELIGIOUS SPACES CASE STUDY: S.STEPHANOS MONASTERY. MEMARI-VA-SHAHRSAZI (HONAR-HA-YE-ZIBA ), -(39), 69-80. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/154319/en

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NEJADEBRAHIMI AHAD, POURJAFAR MOHAMMADREZA. EFFECT OF RELIGION CHANGE ON ARMENIAN RELIGIOUS SPACES CASE STUDY: S.STEPHANOS MONASTERY. MEMARI-VA-SHAHRSAZI (HONAR-HA-YE-ZIBA )[Internet]. 2009;-(39):69-80. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/154319/en

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AHAD NEJADEBRAHIMI, and MOHAMMADREZA POURJAFAR, “EFFECT OF RELIGION CHANGE ON ARMENIAN RELIGIOUS SPACES CASE STUDY: S.STEPHANOS MONASTERY,” MEMARI-VA-SHAHRSAZI (HONAR-HA-YE-ZIBA ), vol. -, no. 39, pp. 69–80, 2009, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/154319/en

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