Built in 1818, the Kanach Zham church was built over an even older Armenian church. The interior of the church has some unique architectural features including an Armenian inscription from the 19th century. Unfortunately, this historical building was destroyed by the Azeris recently.

I see stuff like this and wonder *why the hell* Artsakhtsis bothered to restore the Yukhari Govhar Agha Mosque. These people weren’t worth spending a single dram for.

Let’s look at it from Azeri perspective… it makes no sense to destroy such a site. Some Azeris were justifying destroying Armenian houses or buildings built by Armenians/Artsakhis because they were built after ”occupation”. But Aliyev is not just destroying those new buildings, this is an open attempt at erasing and destroying Armenian culture and sites in the land. It’s done so in a couple of generations, the land will be cleansed off not only its Armenian natives but also cleansed of its Armenian heritage, history and sites. By doing that a part of our culture and history is lost forever. It also furthers the narrative of not allowing Armenians to come back even if they want to. Because why would the Artsakhis want to return or live under Azerbaijan’s government (whether its Aliyevs or not) if pretty much all of their history, homes, sites and culture are lost? Therefore this destruction is done as an attempt to scare off Artsakhis who may think about going back one day.

I’ve written this in my other comments under similar posts but I expect sites and buildings like these to completely demolished and disappear within 5-10 years at best.