Khuchap Monastery

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Khuchap Monastery ({{Langx|hy|Խուճապ|translit=Xučap}}) or Khujabi Monastery ({{lang-ka|ხუჯაბი|tr}}) is a monastery dedicated to Our Lady of Iviron. It is situated in Privolnoye, a village in the Lori Province of Armenia, near the border with Georgia.{{Cite web|title=Armenia: Property Disputes Fueling Church Tension between Yerevan and Tbilisi {{!}} Eurasianet|url=https://eurasianet.org/armenia-property-disputes-fueling-church-tension-between-yerevan-and-tbilisi|access-date=2021-06-13|website=eurasianet.org|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Nicholas|first=Holding|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1090890222|title=Armenia : With Nagorno Karabagh.|date=2008|publisher=Bradt Travel Guides|isbn=978-1-78477-079-2|pages=162, 170|oclc=1090890222}}

Despite its geographic circumstances, Georgian authorities maintain that the monastery is situated in the Marneuli Municipality near the village of Akhkerpi.{{Cite web |url=http://rus.allgeo.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1514&Itemid=38&ffdde0d3d75c774a38f7c3cd62bf62e3=ce6fd90e9c36d1a320a7bafb0c10989e |title="АРМЯНСКИЕ" ИЛИ ГРУЗИНСКИЕ ЦЕРКВИ В ГРУЗИИ?! - Бондо Арвеладзе |access-date=2017-10-06 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304212842/http://rus.allgeo.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1514&Itemid=38&ffdde0d3d75c774a38f7c3cd62bf62e3=ce6fd90e9c36d1a320a7bafb0c10989e |url-status=dead }}{{Citation needed|date=November 2019}}[http://txts.mgou.ru/vestnik/2007/hist2.pdf Т.К. Алябьева, Государственная политика России в области сохранения национальных памятников в России XIX - н. ХХ в. века.( Средняя Азия, Кавказ, Закавказье), Вестник Московского государственного областного университета, СЕРИЯ «ИСТОРИЯ И ПОЛИТИЧЕСКИЕ НАУКИ» № 1, Москва, Издательство МГОУ, 2007, p. 122][http://www.humanrights.ge/index.php?a=main&pid=5961&lang=eng Where is the Georgia-Armenia Border?]

Apart from the main church, Khuchap Monastery also consists of a gavit and several ruined buildings.{{Citation needed|date=November 2019}}

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