Cathedral of Mren

Cathedral of Mren
Mren in the early 20th century
Shown within Turkey
Basic information
Location	Digor (District), Kars
Geographic coordinates
Affiliation	Armenian Apostolic Church
Architectural description
Architectural type	Three-nave basilica with dome
Architectural style	Armenian
Groundbreaking	631
Completed	639

The Cathedral of Mren is a 7th-century Armenian church in an abandoned medieval town site called Mren. It is located in the Kars region of Turkey near the border with Armenia, about 1.5 km west of the Akhurian River.

The church of Mren is a domed triple-nave basilica, believed, on the basis of an inscription on its west facade and on stylistic features, to have been built in the 630s or early 640s.

See also

• Odzun Church, an architecturally similar and contemporaneous three-nave basilica with dome in Odzun, Armenia

Further reading

• Maranci, Christina, "New Observations on the Frescoes at Mren," Revue des Études Arméniennes 35 (2013): 203-225.
• Thierry, Michel and Nicole, "La cathédral de Mren et sa decoration," Cahiers Archaéologiques 21 (1971): 43-77.

External links

• The Cathedral of Mren on VirtualAni.org
• The Cathedral of Mren on Gagik Arzumanyan's photo gallery
• Mren Cathedral at the Rensselaer Digital Collections
• 3D model of Mren