Temple in Agjagala village

In the Echmiadzin district of the Yerevan province, later in the village of Agjagala (Urush) in the Uchkilsa district

Uchkilsa district – Echmiadzin, Agjagala village Renamed Tsakhgalanj since 25.01.1978.

Architecture

The temple was appropriated by Armenians. Nowadays, S. Gevorg is presented as the "Armenian chapel".

The temple is located in the village of Agjagala, southwest of Mount Alagoz, in the Uchkilsa district of the Yerevan province. The temple was built in the 7th century. Yellow and brown tuff stone and white plaster were used in its construction. It was restored in 1870. The temple is about 10 meters long, 3 meters high, and 5 meters wide. The roof part has collapsed and a flat roof covering has been installed in its place, which does not correspond to the ancient architecture of the temple. The village of Agjagala was located southwest of Mount Alagoz in the Uchkilsa district of the Echmiadzin district of the Yerevan province. It was mentioned in the "Detailed Notebook of the Yerevan Province" compiled in 1590, on a 5-mile map of the Caucasus. Until 1828, only Azerbaijanis lived in the village.
Armenians were resettled here from Turkey in 1828–1830. Along with Armenians, 79 Azerbaijanis lived in the village in 1831, 38 in 1873, 6 in 1886, and 31 in 1897. In 1918, Azerbaijanis living in the village were subjected to Armenian aggression and deported from their historical and ethnic lands. The source also mentions that the village was called Urush. In 1828–1832, Armenians from abroad also settled in the village. In 1918, the Azerbaijani population of the village was expelled. In 1946, the village was renamed Bazmaberd in Armenian, and in 1978, Tsakhgalang.
It is named after the nearby ruins of "Aghjagala". The ruins are the remains of the ancient city of Yervandashat. A 17th-century Armenian author writes that ancient Yervandashat is the current Agjagala.
The same Agjagala, located in eastern Turkey, on the Kars River, was also mentioned by an Armenian author in the early 17th century. That Agjagala was the center of the Sanjak in the Middle Ages.

The toponymThe Azerbaijani language adopted the suffix “-ca”, which indicates the morphological sign of the degree of multiplication of the adjective, and formed from the combination of the word “ag” meaning “small, low, not very high” and the word “qala”, and expresses the meaning of “a village next to a small, low castle”. It is a complex toponym formed on the basis of the relief. Agjagala means “a castle built of whitish-colored stone”. It is one of the 9 Agjagala toponyms that existed in the territories of Azerbaijan and present-day Armenia in the 19th century. The Agjagala toponym first appears in the epos “Kitabi-Dade Gorgud” in the form of “Agjagala Surmeli”.