Havuts Tar

Ararat Province, Armenia

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Havuts Tar, also known as the All Savior Monastery, is an 11th to 13th-century walled Armenian monastic complex situated on a promontory above the Azat River Valley in the Kotayk Province of Armenia, near the villages of Goght and Garni. Built in the distinctive Armenian architectural style, the fortified monastery occupies a remote hilltop setting within the Khosrov State Reserve and is marked by surviving walls, ruined structures, and several khachkars (carved stone crosses). The site is accessible via the Havuts Tar Trail from the reserve entrance, a roughly thirty-minute walk that passes additional khachkars and a small ruined chapel before reaching the main monastic complex with its fortified perimeter walls.