Albanian temple in the village of Agbulag

In the village of Agbulag in the Chambarak district of the Goycha district

Chambarek district - Krasnoselsk since 31.12.1937, Agbulg village was renamed Agberk since 19.04.1991.

Architecture

Armenians first moved to the village of Agbulag, which has long been the homeland of the Turkic-Oghuz tribes, in 1988, after the villagers were subjected to genocide and expelled from the village. The Albanian temple in the village of Agbulag was appropriated by Armenians and is currently presented as an Armenian church.

Located in the Chambarek district of Goycha district, 4 kilometers north of Lake Goycha, the temple was built of gray tuff stone. It is 14 meters long, 6 meters wide, and 6 meters high. It has iron gates with an oval top, approximately 2 meters wide and 3 meters high. On the top of the gate is a triangular-shaped plaster ornament decorated with patterns.
In the “Iravan province summary book” (1728), the village of Derechichek district is recorded as Agbulag, and it is indicated that the state received 3 thousand agchas of income per year from the timar in the name of a person named Abdurrahman in the village.
I. Chopin (1832) recorded it as the village of Agbulag in the Goycha district of the Iravan province, and indicated that 136 (79 men, 57 women) Azerbaijanis lived in 26 households in the village.
In the statistical data of 1873, it was shown that 422 (234 men, 188 women) Azerbaijanis lived in 51 households in the village listed as the village of Agbulag in the Goycha lake basin area of ​​the Yeni Bayazid district of the Iravan province, and that the village was located on the edge of Goycha lake, at the cape of Adatepe.
In 1886, the village, which was registered as Agbulag village in the Mazra district of Yeni Bayazid district of Yerevan province, had 575 (318 men, 257 women) Azerbaijanis living in 83 households.
Finally, in 1908, the number of Azerbaijanis in the village reached 940, in 1914 it reached 982, and in 1919 it reached 1329.
In 1919, Armenian bandits attacked and massacred the population. In 1919-1920, our compatriots were displaced from the village and found refuge in various regions of Azerbaijan. Only after the establishment of Soviet power in the region did the refugee population return and, having rebuilt the village, settle in their native land.
In 1922, 1053 Azerbaijanis lived in the village, in 1926 - 1113, in 1931 - 1392, in 1970 - 1542, in 1979 - 1450. In 1985, the village population was 1500, and the number of schoolchildren was 330.
According to estimates, in 1988, 345 Azerbaijani families left the village of Agbulag.
On November 24, 1988, the village was subjected to more intensive attacks by Armenian bandits. On the snowy and frosty night of November 28, between 1 and 3 am, the villagers were forced to leave their homeland under a hail of bullets.

We also agree that the name of the village is probably composed of the words "ag" and "bulag" meaning "drinking water", "fresh water" (B. Budagov, G. Geybulla-yev). The point is that the village got its name because it was built on the territory where the spring called Agbulag is located. Many toponyms with the same name - village, spring and mountain names - have been recorded in the Chambarek, Agin, Surmeli, Shorayel, Kavar, Kirkhbulag, Abaran, Vedibasar regions of the Ravan land.