Zvartnots - beautiful 7th-century ancient ruins in Armenia

Zvartnots Cathedral (literally "celestial angels cathedral") is a 7th-century centrally planned aisled tetraconch type Armenian cathedral built by the order of Catholicos Nerses III.

Zvartnots was built at a time when much of Armenia had just recently been overrun by the Muslim Arabs who were progressively occupying the Sasanian Persia of which Armenia was a part at the time.

Construction of the cathedral began in 643 under the guidance of Catholicos Nerses the Builder. Dedicated to St. Gregory, it was located at the place where a meeting between King Trdat III and Gregory the Illuminator was supposed to have taken place.

According to the medieval Armenian historian Movses Kaghankatvatsi, the cathedral was consecrated in 652. From 653 to 659, Nerses was in Tayk and the construction of the cathedral continued under Anastas Akoratsi. Following the Arab occupation of Dvin and the intensifying wars between the Byzantine and Arab armies on the former's eastern borders, Nerses transferred the patriarchal palace of the Catholicos from Dvin to Zvartnots.

The exterior church design, featuring basket capitals with Ionic volute mounts, eagle capitals, and vine scroll friezes reveals the influence of Syrian and northern Mesopotamian architecture.

Zvartnots remained standing until the end of the tenth century, but historical sources are silent as to the cause of its collapse.
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