Alapars

Alapars Ալափարս
The church of Vardanavank built in 901, reconstructed in the 19th c.
Alapars Ալափարս
Coordinates: 40°25′17″N 44°38′05″E
Country	Armenia
Province	Kotayk
Population (2008)
• Total	2,538

Alapars (Armenian: Ալափարս, also Romanized as Alap’ars; formerly Aylaberk, Vardanavan, and Vardanavank) is a village in the Kotayk Province of Armenia. Its center is dominated by the churches of S. Astvatsatsin built in 1897 and Vardan Church (Vardanavank in Armenian) built in 901. According to local legend Vardanavank contains a drop of blood from the Armenian national hero Vartan Mamikonian.

Gallery

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  S. Astvatsatsin Church, 1897.

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  Khachkar adjacent to Vardanavank.

References

• Alapars at GEOnet Names Server
• World Gazeteer: Armenia – World-Gazetteer.com
• Report of the results of the 2001 Armenian Census, National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia
• Kiesling, Brady (2005), Rediscovering Armenia: Guide, Yerevan, Armenia: Matit Graphic Design Studio 
• Brady Kiesling, Rediscovering Armenia, p. 57; original archived at Archive.org, and current version online on Armeniapedia.org.