Khor Virap

Initially settled in 642 CE, the Khor Virap Armenian for "profound cell" Monastery did not go up against its present and last incarnation until the seventeenth century, however even before it is establishing the previous jail site was prominent for holding the man who might move toward becoming Saint Gregory the Illuminator in a pit for a long time before he helped transform the nation into the principal Christian country.

Before achieving sainthood, Grigor Lusavorich was held in a cell at the base of pit delved into an Armenian hillock. For a long time the man made due by being covertly bolstered by nearby Christian ladies.