Tejharuyk Monastery

Tejharuyk (թեժառույք) is an ancient Armenian monastery built between 1196 and 1199 by order of Ivane I Zakarian, a commander from the Armenian-Georgian Zakarian-Mkhargrdzeli family. The monastery stands on a wooded hill southwest of the village of Meghradzor in Armenia’s Kotayk Province and is enclosed by a wall. Ivane I Zakarian converted to the Georgian Orthodox Church, while his vassal Prince Bubak and Bubak’s descendants were buried in the church’s gavit.