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While browsing Wikipedia and the Internet about some damaged Armenian churches in Tbilisi Georgia I came across an amazing photo (but I know this one is not in Tbilisi).

This link is to the Armenian language web page with the original picture I found but could not include for copyright reasons.

This is a photo I was able to find on WikiMedia Commons only after mouviciel's answer came in: Haghpat Monastery

Unless my eyes are playing tricks on me it seems to be a half buried Armenian monastery, still intact but with beautiful green lawn growing on the mounds which conceal some of it!

Where is it? What's it called? Is it really partially buried? Can I visit it?

hippietrail
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Google on "half-buried armenian monastery" gives WikiTravel page on Northern Armenia. There I found Haghpat Monastery. Google images confirms.

mouviciel
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Haghpat monastery located in the north of Armenia.

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If you go to http://images.google.com, then click on the camera icon in the right of the search box, you can enter the url of an image or upload one to search with it. Using this you can usually find the answer in 2 seconds. It gives this page, and tells you that it is the Haghpat Monastery.

Hopefully this will be helpful in the future, and to others.

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