At the time of the Hamidian massacres of 1894 – 1896 , many refugees took shelter at the monastery . However this was not repeated during the Armenian Genocide in 1915 – 1916 , as access to the island was prevented by the Ottoman police . Since that time the monastery has been abandoned and only the church and its '' gavit '' remain
Hamidian massacres
Hamidian massacres
Ktuts monastery