According to British traveler H. F. B. Lynch , who visited the monastery in 1893 , with the presence of the Kurdish threat and the suspicions of the Turkish government " this once flourishing monastery has been stripped of much of its glamour ; indeed the monks are little better than prisoners of State . " The monastery was looted in 1895 during the Hamidian massacres . By the early 20th century the monastery 's structure was deteriorating . The decline continued until the start of World War I
Hamidian massacres
Hamidian massacres
Surb Karapet Monastery