The famous monastery of Sourb Thade (St. Thaddeus), or in Turkish, Ghara-Kilise, is located in the mountainous area of western Azerbaidjian, about 20 km from the town of Makou and is today in Iranian territory. Sourb Thade can be glimpsed from quite a distance thanks to the massiveness of the church, strongly characterized by 2 cuspidate tambours. The monastery is perched on a mountain ridge beside a stream sunken into the rock, thus giving it a natural fortified position. Nearby are several chapels, 3 on the hills east of the stream, 1 approximately 3 km south of the monastery on the road to Bastam, and another that also serves as the church for the village of Ghara-Kilise. According to tradition (see the chronological history), the monastery was founded by the Apostle Thadeus Monastery St. Thaddeus on the spot where a pagan temple existed in former times. Time after time it was destroyed by invasions, and struck by earthquakes, the most devastating of which occured in 1319. In 1329, the monastery was rebuilt, and further renewed and enlarged during the course of the following centuries.
@mohammadrzea: Tanx Dear Mohamadreza… it’s so nice of u… actually these are some HDRs that I’ve shot them accidentally, at the time when I didn’t even know how to use my Camera… and by chance while trying to get to know my Camera and test its features not knowingly I’ve shot some of the scenes twice or more on my tripod with different exposures modes and settings… so… later about a month ago I found out that I could make some HDRs out of these accidentally shot scenes… and so here are the results…
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The famous monastery of Sourb Thade (St. Thaddeus), or in Turkish, Ghara-Kilise, is located in the mountainous area of western Azerbaidjian, about 20 km from the town of Makou and is today in Iranian territory. Sourb Thade can be glimpsed from quite a distance thanks to the massiveness of the church, strongly characterized by 2 cuspidate tambours. The monastery is perched on a mountain ridge beside a stream sunken into the rock, thus giving it a natural fortified position. Nearby are several chapels, 3 on the hills east of the stream, 1 approximately 3 km south of the monastery on the road to Bastam, and another that also serves as the church for the village of Ghara-Kilise. According to tradition (see the chronological history), the monastery was founded by the Apostle Thadeus Monastery St. Thaddeus on the spot where a pagan temple existed in former times. Time after time it was destroyed by invasions, and struck by earthquakes, the most devastating of which occured in 1319. In 1329, the monastery was rebuilt, and further renewed and enlarged during the course of the following centuries.
Armenica.com
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The panoramic view of the northern outer wall of the whole complex…
Armenica.com was the only site that I could find on the net, with some useful and complete Plans and sketches of this historical site…
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nice HDR shot, very well done …
Comment by mohammadrzea — December 10, 2008 @ 1:22 pm
@mohammadrzea: Tanx Dear Mohamadreza…
it’s so nice of u… actually these are some HDRs that I’ve shot them accidentally, at the time when I didn’t even know how to use my Camera… 
and by chance while trying to get to know my Camera and test its features not knowingly I’ve shot some of the scenes twice or more on my tripod with different exposures modes and settings… 
so… later about a month ago I found out that I could make some HDRs out of these accidentally shot scenes… 
and so here are the results…
Comment by Kaveh Saffari — December 10, 2008 @ 3:18 pm
wow! great shot!…
Comment by ida — December 14, 2008 @ 11:52 am
@ida: Tanx again…
Comment by Kaveh Saffari — December 14, 2008 @ 2:47 pm
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