Upper Zvartak Pilgrimage Site :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Upper Zvartak Pilgrimage Site

Iran / Western Atrpatakan / Salmast / Mahlam

Location

Pilgrimage Site Upper Zvartak is situated 3.5 km south of the village (N 38°05°56.65°°; E 044°43°34.58°°), at an altitude of 1,599 metres.

Karapetian. Samvel, History of Armenia, Salmast, vol. 2, Yerevan, 2019, p. 352.

Historical Introduction

In 2011, we saw a picture which had been described (except the cross-stone) yet in 1905: “... it is a hill with only the tracks of two ruined buildings; the stones of the walls were used to make a circle and a cross-stone was standing in the centre of that circle (no traces of inscription could be seen on the cross-stone).”