Halidzor fortress is a barn (photos)

Today our church culture, that has a centuries-old history, is in helpless and hopeless condition. And often the tramplers are not only enemies, but also “bearers” of the culture- Armenian people. Today words of preserving our rich historical heritage , which is left in the clutches of the Kurds and the Turks of Western Armenia are heard everywhere and all the time, calls are made to fight- to go and take the lands back, save Armenian churches, which have been turned into houses, at best luck, and often into barns; final destructions threatens to those. But how many of us pays attention to what goes on today in Armenian churches and monasteries? At churches, which have been shelter to an Armenian peasant when war and disaster, a peasant who said a daily prayer to God. At churches where Armenian heroes - Mamikonyan and Marzpetuni, Nzhdeh and David Bek fought for centuries against their enemies, encouraged by the prayers of our sacred fathers.
Yesterday lurer.com had published an article, which touched the issue of St. Karapet monastery, which has been turned into a barn by the Kurds.
The response to that article was not late, but, unfortunately, not from relevant bodies or NGOs, but from one of our readers, who handed to lurer.com photos, showing how Armenian herdsmen turned the already-restored Halidzor fortress, one of Armenian remarkable architectural complexes of late middle ages, into a barn. The fortress is on 1km south-west from the city of Kapan, on the right high bank of Voghdji river. A nunnery-desert has been operating in the territory of the fortress in the first half of the 17th century, which, after the enclosure is serving as Melik Parsadanyans’ ancestral fortress. It has become the center for the liberation of Syunik since 1720s, due to its unachievable position.
David Bek and Mkhitar Sparapet destroyed a great number of Turkish troops near the fortress of Halidzor in 1725-27.
This church complex, which has a rich history, is not an ordinary temple or monastery, but the witness of one of the most remarkable events of our history. And a question arises after this sad incident: what does our “religious” nation, having a history of more than 1700 years, and our “religious” government think about this, and who are the responsible bodies for this or similar situations?

Nelly Avetisyan