Aysasi tombstone monuments

It is located in the village of Ay­sasi, 29 km from the center of Keshishkend (Yeghegnad­zor) district in Daralayaz mahal.

In 1946 its na­me was chan­ged to Gizilgul, and on 19.04.1991 it was named Are­ta.

Architec­ture

In the village, there are Alba­nian church from the 7th, 10th and 11th centuries, and other historical monuments (sto­ne crosses) related to the li­fe of the Turks.

200 m away from the village cemetery, a 3-m-long, 1-m-wide tahna (stone-cut bowl) was carved from gray stone, and water from a spring 500 m away was brought to this tahna stone. On the tombstones in the cemetery near the church, there are many stones written in the Albanian alphabet, and on them, a knight with a saz on his shoulder, a shield and a sword, a bow, and an arrow is depicted on a galloping horse, and a lion opening its claws in front of the galloping horse.