Julfa, Azerbaijan
Armenian cemetery in Julfa
The Armenian cemetery in Julfa was a cemetery near the town of Julfa, in the Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan that originally housed around 10,000 funerary monuments. The tombstones consisted mainly of thousands of khachkars—uniquely decorated cross-stones characteristic of medieval Christian Armenian art. The cemetery was still standing in the late 1990s, when the government of Azerbaijan began a systemic campaign to destroy the monuments.
- City
- Julfa
- Country
- Azerbaijan
- Category
- Historic
- Suggested visit
- About 90 minutes
Background: Wikipedia