EREK MANKUNK MONASTERY

Erek Mankunk Monastery or Yerits Mankants Monastery (Երից Մանկանց Վանք) (Monastery of the Three Youths) is an Armenian monastery of the 17th century. The monastery is located in the Martakert region of Artsakh, 7 kilometers from Jraberd.
The monastery, built around 1691, is an outstanding example of Artsakh’s architecture of the late Middle Ages, which flourished in the 17th century after a period of decline in the 14th-16th centuries.
It was during the reign of the rulers of Jraberd, a Melik-Israelian family of princes, that the Erek Mankunk Monastery was constructed. These rulers were in competition with the rulers of Khachen, the Hasan-Jalalian family, who were the patrons of the monastery as well as the patriarchal throne from Gandzasar.