Turkey

Varzahan Monastery

Turkey

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

Strollie cannot guarantee access — always check before you travel.

Varzahan Monastery was an Armenian church founded in 1101 near the village of Uğrak, approximately 10 kilometers northwest of Bayburt in eastern Turkey. Built in the Armenian architectural tradition, the monastery stood until the early-to-mid twentieth century, when it was demolished sometime between the 1920s and the mid-1950s, in the aftermath of the Armenian genocide of 1915.