ArmInfo.In the territory of Artsakh, Christian buildings with unconventional entrance for the Armenian shrines from the East have been found.
Today at a press conference the head of the archaeological group carrying out excavations in Artsakh Hamlet Petrosyan, discovered the tombs of the Christian period with the entrances that are not characteristic of the Armenian churches and tombs. "So, under the second church, a tomb was discovered, whose door was not to the west, as is the case with most Armenian churches and tombs, but in the east. All Christian buildings have an entrance to the west, and an altar to the east. This symbolizes that in Christianity the second coming of Christ, the salvation of souls and the judgment day are expected from the east," the expert explained.
In the same year, Petrosyan said, during the excavations in Amaras, new entrances of the Amaras chapel were found - there are only three of them, one of them also from the east. Another tomb with an entrance from the East was discovered in Artsakh in the village of Tsmakaovit in the Martakert region.
"Presumably, all these structures were created at the end of the 5th and the beginning of the 6th century. There is a theory that the entrance from the east in some Christian buildings is just an imitation of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, which is in Jerusalem and which was originally the only tomb with the eastern entrance," he concluded.