Tsakuri

Tsakuri (Armenian: Ծակուռի) or Hunarli (Azerbaijani: Hünərli,[2] previously Zakirli[3]) is a village in the Khojavend District of Azerbaijan, in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

[5][6][7] Historical heritage sites in and around Tsakuri include the monastery complex of Tsaghkavank (Armenian: Ծաղկավանք), of which only the Holy Mother of God Church has been preserved, the Ptkatagh Monastery (Armenian: Պտկաթաղի վանք, romanized: Ptkatagh Vank) built in 1670, a cemetery from between the 17th and 19th centuries, a 17th-century khachkar, and a 19th-century spring monument.

In July 2013, the Primate of the Diocese of Artsakh of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Archbishop Pargev Martirosyan, gave his blessing to the project and construction work started in May 2019.

The second phase of the project for the renovation of the church's interior was planned to be partly funded by an international crowdfunding campaign.

In 2015, the population was mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry, and the village had a municipal building, a house of culture, the Tsakuri branch of Mariamadzor Secondary School, and a medical centre.

Holy Mother of God Church in Tsakuri (founded in the 12th century, with the current church dating from 1682)