[1] Talin's Katoghike Church sits central to the town cemetery and dominates the surrounding landscape.

Each room contains a secret passage entrance at the second story level, facing the direction of the apse.

The church of S. Astvatsatsin is situated adjacent to the entrance of the cemetery and monastic complex at Talin and near the main cathedral.

It is a small cruciform central-planned building with a Byzantine-style single red tile, octagonal umbrella domed roof that is centered over the church.

It reads the following passage: I Nerseh the patrician proconsul, lord of Shirak and Asharunik, built this church in the name of the Holy Mother of God for her intercession for me and my wife Shushan and Hrapat my son.