Yeghrdut monastery

Yeghrdut monastery (Armenian: Եղրդուտի վանք, Yeghrduti vank) was an Armenian monastery in the western part of Muş province of modern Turkey, approximately 22 km northwest of Muş city. Built in 283 A.D., it ceased functioning as a monastery after the Armenian genocide in 1915 and got destroyed in 1920.

The Yeghrdut Monastery takes its name from the "yeghird" herb which grows in the area.

The monastery, was originally called Myuronaman or Shish-Yougho. In Armenian, Myuron or Meron means myrrh, and Myuronaman translates to container of a myrrh. The Armenian Apostolic Church for many centuries used myrrh to prepare the sacramental chrism for christening and funeral rites. Thus the name Yeghrdut means the place of myrrh containers. Yeghrdut monastery has 2 other names:

Surb Hovannes Vank (Armenian: Սուրբ Հովհաննես վանք, Monastery of Saint John).

Artzvaberi Surb Nshan (Armenian: Արծվաբերի Ս. Նշան, Saint Sign Brought by the Eagle).

The Yeghrdut Monastery consisted of four churches:

Surb Hovannes Church (main church in the center)

Surb Astvatzatzin (adjoining from south)

Surb Grigor Lusavorich (adjoining from northwest)