The\u00a0Church of Kish\u00a0also known by different sources as\u00a0Church of Saint Elishe\u00a0or\u00a0Holy Mother of God Church\u00a0is an inactive 12th or 13th century\u00a0Caucasian Albanian\u00a0church located in the village of\u00a0Ki\u015f\u00a0approximately 5\u00a0km north of\u00a0Shaki,\u00a0Azerbaijan. It has functioned at different times as a\u00a0Caucasian Albanian Apostolic church a Chalcedonian church within the\u00a0Georgian Orthodox Church\u00a0and later as\u00a0Armenian Apostolic Church.<\/p>\n
In 2000-2003 the\u00a0Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs\u00a0funded a joint project between\u00a0Azerbaijan Architecture and Construction University\u00a0and the\u00a0Norwegian Humanitarian Enterprise\u00a0for the archaeological research and restoration of the church of Kish. Dr. Vilayat Karimov of Baku’s Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography served as the director of excavations, and the archaeological advisor for the project was\u00a0J. Bj\u00f8rnar Storfjell.\u00a0Radiocarbon analysis\u00a0of various objects found on the site showed that the cultic site found beneath the\u00a0altar\u00a0of the church dates to about 3000 B.C., while the construction of the existing church building dates to about the 12th century (990-1160 A.D.)<\/p>\n
The existing church building cannot be dated to the times of St. Elishe, but the archaeological evidence demonstrates that the church is located on an ancient cultic site. It is very unlikely that St. Elishe built in Kish a church in the modern understanding of this word. Even if the person did exist, it appears likely that he built only the altar or used an existing pagan cult structure.<\/p>\n
Bj\u00f8rnar Storfjell stated that there’s clear evidence that this church was built as\u00a0Diophysite\u00a0church. Excavations revealed that the church represented two different periods of use, with two different corresponding floor levels. According to Storfjell, since the architecture of the apse of the original church in Kish suggests a diophysite\u00a0Christology, and since the Georgian Church was the only diophysite church existing in the Caucasus in the late medieval period, it seems reasonable to suggest that the Kish church was built as a Georgian church and was later taken over by\u00a0monophysites.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The\u00a0Church of Kish\u00a0also known by different sources as\u00a0Church of Saint Elishe\u00a0or\u00a0Holy Mother of God Church\u00a0is an inactive 12th or 13th century\u00a0Caucasian Albanian\u00a0church located in the village of\u00a0Ki\u015f\u00a0approximately 5\u00a0km north of\u00a0Shaki,\u00a0Azerbaijan. It has functioned at different times as a\u00a0Caucasian Albanian Apostolic church a Chalcedonian church within the\u00a0Georgian Orthodox Church\u00a0and later as\u00a0Armenian Apostolic Church. In 2000-2003 the\u00a0Norwegian […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assistancetour.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assistancetour.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assistancetour.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assistancetour.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assistancetour.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assistancetour.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assistancetour.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assistancetour.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assistancetour.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assistancetour.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}