When the 14th-century church of St. Stephanos at Abrakunis was visited by Switzerland-Armenia Association (SAA) in 2005, it was found to have been recently destroyed, with its site reduced to a few bricks sticking out of loose, bare earth.
The Armenians have long been sounding the alarm that the Azerbaijanis intend to eliminate all evidence of Armenian presence in Nakhichevan and to this end have been carrying out massive and irreversible destruction of Armenian cultural traces.