Bana or Banak is a ruined medieval Christian cathedral in the Erzurum Province, northeastern Turkey, in what had formerly been a historical Armeno-Georgian marchland known to Armenians as Tayk and to Georgians as Tao. Modeled after the Armenian cathedral of Zvartnots, Bana is a large tetraconch design, surrounded by a near-rotunda polygonal ambulatory and marked with a cylindrical drum.

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  • Bana or Banak is a ruined medieval Christian cathedral in the Erzurum Province, northeastern Turkey, in what had formerly been a historical Armeno-Georgian marchland known to Armenians as Tayk and to Georgians as Tao. Modeled after the Armenian cathedral of Zvartnots, Bana is a large tetraconch design, surrounded by a near-rotunda polygonal ambulatory and marked with a cylindrical drum. It was probably built by the Armenian catholicos Nerses III, the sponsor of Zvartnots, in the 7th century when the area was part of the Armenian principality of Tayk. After the area passed on to Georgian control in the 8th century (as part of Tao-Klarjeti), the church was reconstructed by the Georgian ruler Adarnase IV at some point between 881 and 923, and emerged in written records in the 11th century Georgian chronicles. Henceforth, it was used as a royal cathedral by the Georgian Bagratid dynasty until the Ottoman conquest of the area in the 16th century. The former cathedral was converted into a fortress by the Ottoman army during the Crimean War in the 1850s and was almost completely ruined during the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-78.
  • Banak, Bana ou Penek est une ancienne localité située dans le Tayk, une province de l'Arménie historique ibérisée au IX siècle. Le site, aujourd'hui en Turquie orientale est principalement connu en raison des vestiges de son église de style arménien, liée à un complexe monastique.
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  • Bana(k) Բանակ, ბანა
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  • The ruins of Bana cathedral in 2007
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  • Abandoned
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  • Turkey
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  • c. 653-58, rebuilt c. 881-923
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  • Bana or Banak is a ruined medieval Christian cathedral in the Erzurum Province, northeastern Turkey, in what had formerly been a historical Armeno-Georgian marchland known to Armenians as Tayk and to Georgians as Tao. Modeled after the Armenian cathedral of Zvartnots, Bana is a large tetraconch design, surrounded by a near-rotunda polygonal ambulatory and marked with a cylindrical drum.
  • Banak, Bana ou Penek est une ancienne localité située dans le Tayk, une province de l'Arménie historique ibérisée au IX siècle. Le site, aujourd'hui en Turquie orientale est principalement connu en raison des vestiges de son église de style arménien, liée à un complexe monastique.
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  • Bana cathedral
  • Banak
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