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including painted shards and ornate arches. Every piece of the picture corresponds to a particular period of time. On caps, bases, columns, and columns themselves are lovely embellishments. The prayer room was built in the thirteenth century. Hewn stone, murals, and arches are used to embellish the prayer room's exterior. The complex's refectory, which is situated in the northwest of the area and was constructed out of stone fragments, is today severely damaged.
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the artwork were saved. The second one has a construction that is more like to a gazebo, eight open arches, and a hewn cornice. The Church of the
Baptist is located south of the first church that was previously described. This stone-processed building is a church with a large hall. The vault is shaped like a cylinder. The exteriors Except for the south, all three cardinal directions are embellished with arches. Later, a vestibule from the west was constructed.
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In the southwest, not far from the refectory, is a tower. Only three levels have been preserved; the first and second floors each have one window, and the entrance is on the second floor. To the northwest of the main temple is the bell tower, which rises two stories. Only the ground floor's pieces of
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today. Some raiders found the Rkoni monastery while raiding the area and destroyed it in the year 1400. The monastery was rebuilt around the same time when the Mongol invasion was quickly halted because of Timur's death in 1405.
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