The monastery was abandoned in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide . The dome of its church was still intact in the early 1960s , but the whole structure is now very heavily ruined and the dome is entirely gone . Sources differ on how it was destroyed . The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute states that it was blown up by the Turkish military , while Murad Hasratyan wrote that it was ruined in a 1966 earthquake
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Saint Bartholomew Monastery