[2] Behind fortified walls lies buildings of white shaved (felsite, including the monastery, church, a bell-tower and vestibule.

[1] An image, described as "a remarkable example of mid-century Armenian sculpture" of Mary (mother of Jesus), is chiseled into the headstone of the church's entrance.

[1][7] The monastery became an "important cultural, educational and spiritual center" under the guidance of Father Superior and Phililogist Vardapet Avagter.

Without restoration of the destroyed buildings and walls, the church[7] of the monastery stood until the Persian-Ottoman War when in 1604 thousands of Armenians were forcibly resettled under Shah Abbas.

[7] The remains of the Armenian military leader and political thinker Garegin Nzhdeh were secretly buried in the yard of Spitakavor Monastery on 9 May 1987[8][9] or in 1983.