St. David Margare Church is located in the Khashtarak community. It was consecrated on May 9, 2012. The church is a single-nave structure built from pink tuff stone. The churchyard is well-maintained and features benches. The church is situated on a hill in Khashtarak, offering a picturesque view of the surrounding forested communities. The interior decoration of the church is characteristic of modern church architecture, with walls adorned with religious paintings. The church has a single altar.
Within the church grounds, there is also a soldier’s statue dedicated to the memory of those who died in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and a khachkar (cross-stone) dedicated to the memory of those who perished in the 44-day war of 2020.
St. David Margare Church was built with the funds of Artak Kamalyan, a professor of economics at Voronezh University, who is originally from Khashtarak. The spiritual center was constructed in memory of Artak Kamalyan’s deceased brother, David Kamalyan.
The program is implemented within the framework of the “We Are Our Mountains” project, funded by the European Union’s EU4Culture program. The program is carried out by the Ijevan Municipality and the Urban Sustainable Development Foundation.
