Church of Kish

The Church of Kish is an inactive 12th or 13th century Caucasian Albanian church located in the village of Kish about 5km north of Shaki, Azerbaijan. It has functioned at extraordinary instances as a Caucasian Albanian Apostolic church a Chalcedonian church in the Georgian Orthodox Church and later as Armenian Apostolic Church. According to the seventh century Armenian historian Movses Kaghankatvatsi, inside the 1st century AD St. Elishe, a disciple of Thaddeus of Edessa, arrived to a place referred to as Gis ???, where he built a church and recited a liturgy. The church became the "non secular middle and the region of enlightenment of people of the East". On his way from Gis St. Elishe was killed close to the pagan altar inside the small

Zerguni valley through unknown humans. According to the Armenian historian on architecture Samvel Karapetian, the geographical position of Kish does no longer appear to in shape that defined by using Kaghankatvatsi. Karapetian believes that they've recognized Gis as the village of Bomen Bum 60 km to the south-east of Kish, in Gabala district. According to a Georgian historiographer, within the 10th century, the population of Kish converted to the Georgian Orthodox Church Chalcedonism. The church of Kish became changed into a residence of a Georgian bishop, functioning till seventeenth century.14 By the time while Russia took ownership of the location the village of Kish had Udi population.