[6][7][8] The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin of the Armenian Apostolic Church condemned the damage in a statement in November.

[9] Satellite images taken on February 15, 2021, showed the church had suffered significant damage in the time since it had come under Azerbaijani rule.

[13] An Azerbaijani news agency denied Kanach Zham's destruction, while also denying the church's Armenian heritage (Azerbaijani sources ascribe a Russian provenance to the church, claiming that it was modified according to an "Armenianized" style in the 1840s.[3]).

[3] Video footage from a BBC Russian reporter who visited Shusha in September 2021 showed that the church was undergoing ostensible renovation.

[15] On April 18, 2024, Caucasus Heritage Watch, a watchdog group made up of researchers from Purdue and Cornell, reported using satellite imagery that the church had been fully destroyed.