Destruction of the khachkars and tombstones of the Old Jugha cemetery

The city of Jugha is located in the present-day Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. Close the city was located the largest medieval old Armenian cemetery, where Armenian khachkars (cross-stones) and ram-shaped tombstones were erected.

According to the accounts of French traveler Alexandre de Rhodes, in 1648, the cemetery held around 10,000 well-preserved khachkars. By the 1970s, the Jugha cemetery still retained approximately 3,000 khachkars and 1,000 tombstones.

In 2005, the Azerbaijani authorities completely demolished the medieval Armenian cemetery.

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