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The House of the Turkish Deputy, the XVI- XVIII centuries. Preservation #1659 | Foto
7� Hospital'na St.

It has been built as an Armenian one. In the second part of the XVII century, it was a two-storied rectangular building, covered with a hipped roof. The first floor of the house, 5 m high, served as a retaining wall. The entrance to the second floor has been from the upper point. In the last quarter of the XVII century, the house belonged to the Turkish deputy. It has remained its size and space structure till the middle of the XX century. It was stone, rectangular in plan (28,4�8,8 m), it was divided by the cross walls into 4 lodgements on the first floor and into 8 lodgements - on the second floor. The coverings were flat and joist.
In the period of the Great Patriotic War, the house was damaged a lot - the ruins have remained in the hight of two tiers. The fragments of rich white-stone decor were found there - carved ornamentated blocks of head moldings of the windows, poles of the portals and platbands with vegetative and geometrical motives, typical for the Armenian architecture of the Renaissance period.
The remains of the monument are the unique example of one of the most considerable in scale and artistic design Armenian houses of the city.

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Translated by Yana Anufriyeva
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