[3] Erzinkyan wrote: …a chapel built of brick in Aghvank, on the bank of the Gurgan stream, on the edge of a hilly plain.

According to early medieval historians, by order of the king of the pagan Maskut tribe Sanesan from the Caspian region, Grigoris was tied to a horse and dragged along the coastal rocks until he died.

[5] The length of the church is 17 m, the width is 12 m, the height of the dome is about 18 m. On each wall there are recesses in the form of straight triangular prisms, which end at the top with five diverging lines.

The tradition of pilgrimage to the church has been revived, with Armenian families from Dagestan, southern Russia and elsewhere coming to worship Saint Gregory on the penultimate Sunday of August.

On August 20, 2011, the Head of the Diocese of the South of Russia of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Bishop Movses Movsesyan, performed the rite of anointing the restored dome cross and icons.

Dagestani Armenians, guests from Yerevan, Pyatigorsk, Kislovodsk, representatives of the Orthodox, Muslim, and Jewish communities of Dagestan, and the republican authorities attended the celebration.