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The Cathedral of Mren is a 7th-century Armenian church in an abandoned medieval town site called Mren. It is located in the Kars region of Turkey, near the border with Armenia, about 1.5 km west of the Akhurian River.
Architecture
The church of Mren is a domed triple-nave basilica, believed, on the basis of an inscription on its west facade and on stylistic features, to have been built 631–639. It was built by David Saharuni, an Armenian ally of the Byzantine emperor Heraclius, to celebrate the latter's entry into Jerusalem in 628.
Gallery
See also
Odzun Church, an architecturally similar and contemporaneous three-nave basilica with dome in Odzun, Armenia
Ani Cathedral, another ruined Armenian church near Mren
Further reading
Kouymjian, Dickran. "Index of Armenian Art: Armenian Architecture - Mren". Armenian Studies Program. California State University, Fresno. Archived from the original on 2008-06-20.
Maranci, Christina, "New Observations on the Frescoes at Mren," Revue des Études Arméniennes 35 (2013): 203–225.
Thierry, Michel and Nicole, "La cathédral de Mren et sa decoration," Cahiers Archaéologiques 21 (1971): 43–77.
External links
The Cathedral of Mren on VirtualAni.org
The Cathedral of Mren on Gagik Arzumanyan's photo gallery
Mren Cathedral Archived 2020-06-26 at the Wayback Machine at the Rensselaer Digital Collections
3D model of Mren Archived 2012-10-13 at the Wayback Machine
The War That Ended The Ancient World on YouTube channel ToldInStone, https://www.youtube.com/@toldinstone