Kobayr monastery
Kobayr (Armenian: Կոբայր) is a 12th century Armenian Apostolic Church monastery. It is located in the village Kober within Lori marz, Armenia.
Kobayr was built on a shelf of a gorge by the princes of the junior Bagratuni branch, Kyurikids in 1171. The monastery was later acquired by the Zakarids and converted into a Chalcedonian monastery. Many of the writings in the monastery are written in Georgian.
The monastery is being fixed and paid for by the government of Armenia with the help of the government of Italy. The ruins of the main church in the monastery contain frescoes of Christ and the twelve apostles as well as the Church fathers and other Christian figures.
Kobayr Monastery Media
- Shahnshah's Queen, Shahnshah and kindred in military uniform as donators, Kobayr Monastery Chapel-Aisle.jpg
Probable depictions of Shahnshah's wife Vaneni (left), her husband Shahnshah Zakarian (middle), and a kindred in military uniform (right), as donators at the Kobayr Monastery Chapel-Aisle.
- Kobayr Monastery Fresco.jpg
Frescoes of Saints. Church
- Kobayr fresco (men in uniform).jpg
Kobayr fresco (men in uniform), Chapel
- Kobayr fresco 2.jpg
Fresco at Kobayr Monastery, painted in the 1270s. Chapel.
- Kobayr-raffi kojian-DCP 4499.JPG
Church frescoes before reconstruction.
- 1 Kobayr Monastery, Tumanyan, Armenia.jpg
View of monastery from direction of Tumanayan
- Kobayr monastery 9.JPG
View of the Chapel from the belltower
View of remainder of complex from belltower
Belltower, tomb of Shahnshah Zakarian
