HAYRAVANK' / IXth-Xllth centuries
This complex is found near the village of Kamo, on the shore of Lake Sevan in western Siwnik'. It is composed of a church, a chapel and a gavit. The church built at the end of the IXth century is a tetraconch characterized by an almost perfect correspondence between the exterior volume and the internal space. A small square chapel with an apse has been added on the south-eastern side. The gavit erected in front of the church in the Xllth century is, as usual, much larger than the church. For topographical reasons the gavit is slightly out of line with the east-west axis of the church. Because of the narrowness of the space, the architects were forced to compress the structure so much that the gavit encircles hall of the church, nearly leaning against it with its polygonal cupola and squeezing it with its two eastern chapels.

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