Cultural destruction

inPicture Ghazanchetsots in peril: Shushi’s ‘white bride’ revisited On May 8, 1992, the liberation of Shushi was celebrated with “Hayr mer” («Հայր մեր» | “The Lord’s Prayer”) at the church altar of Ghazanchetsots. Bombed during the 2020 Artsakh War, vandalized, and recently dismantled under the pretext of “renovation,” Ghazanchetsots has now become a bleeding wound too painful to look at. Check out the facts you might not know about the monument's glorious and tumultuous history below.