Albanian temple in Alapars village

In Alapars (Alparus, Alkovas, Alkavus) village of Akhta district of Yeni Beyazid uezd of Iravan governate.

Akhta region from Razdan on 30.06.1959

Architecture

Currently, it is in a usable condition and functions as an Armenian church

The Albanian temple in the village of Alapars is one of the largest temples in the region. The temple is around 10-12 meters long, 5-6 meters wide, and 33.5 meters high. The temple was built with different types of masonry stones, white lime was used in the masonry. There was a door with a window on the left side and a window on the right side. When the temple was repaired by the Armenians in the 19th century, the tiled stone covering was replaced with a roof made of aluminum material. In order to armenize the temple, a two story square tower was built on the front door using red marble. On top of the tower on the second floor, a 1-meter high ceramic ceiling in the form of a pyramid was built, and a cross was placed on top of it. The established residents of the village were Azerbaijanis. Armenians were moved here from Iran's Khoy, Maku, Salmas, Turkey's Van, Alashkirt provinces in 18291930. In 1829, 83 Armenians from Iran were moved to the village. In 1831, 182 Azerbaijanis lived in the village. In the 1840s and 1850s, Azerbaijanis were forced out of their historical ethnic lands and the village became a settlement of Armenians.

The toponym was formed on the basis of the Turkish ethnonym bars with the word "ala" meaning color. It is an ethnotoponym. It is a structurally complex toponym.