Djulfa cemetery, the ram-shaped tombstone of Manuk Nazar dated 1578. Madame B. Chantre, À travers l’Arménie russe, Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1893. Courtesy of Centro Documentazione Armena, Milan/ Courtesy of Dickran Kouymjian Archives, Paris. See Baltrušaitis*, fig. 2.

 

A partial view of the cemetery. Photo by Aram Vruyr, 1915.

Photo by Aram Vruyr, 1915.

Courtesy Centro Studi e Documentazione della Cultura Armena, Milan.

Partial view of the cemetery. Courtesy of Herman Vahramian, circa 1970.  See Baltrušaitis, fig. 3.

A view of the cemetery.

A close-up view of the cemetery.

Facing the River Araxes with railway line visible in the background, circa 1972.  Courtesy Centro Studi e Documentazione della Cultura Armena, Milan. See Baltrušaitis, fig 4.

Photo by Jurgis Balturšaitis, 1928, courtesy of the Dickran Kouymjian archives, Paris.

Researcher Jurgis Baltrušaitis on horseback in front of the Djulfa cemetery in September, 1928.  Courtesy of J. Baltrušaitis. See Baltrušaitis, fig. 1.

Photo by Jurgis Balturšaitis, 1928, courtesy of the Dickran Kouymjian archives, Paris.

Djulfa khachkars, undated. See Baltrušaitis, fig. 20.

A detailed carving of Christ on a khachkar’s top band. Courtesy of Herman Vahramian, Milan. See Baltrušaitis, fig. 23 d. Also published in Argam Ayvazyan, Jugha, 1990, illustration 105.

Khachkar dated 1546. See Baltrušaitis, fig. 6.

Middle khachkar dated 1574. See Baltrušaitis, fig. 14.

Khachkar, undated. See Baltrušaitis, fig. 21.

Khachkars. Courtesy Argam Ayvazyan, Jugha, 1990. Illustration 30.

Khachkar for Avetik, 1597 (left) and Mahtes Ghalam (1596). Courtesy Argam Ayvazyan, Jugha, Yerevan: Sovetakan Grogh, 1990. Illustration 60.

Source unknown.

Khachkars (1560 and 1564) for Khoja Aghavale. Courtesy Argam Ayvazyan, Jugha, 1990. Illustration 59.

A partial view of the cemetery. Photo by Zaven Sargissian, 1987.

A partial view of the cemetery. Photo by Zaven Sargissian, 1987.

A view of the cemetery. Photo by Armen Haghnazarian, 1976.

A khachkar dated 1571. Photo by Zaven Sargissian, 1987.

A partial view of the cemetery. Photo by Rafayel Abgarian, 1986.

A partial view of the cemetery. Photo by Zaven Sargissian, 1987.

Additional photographs of the cemetery, published in Argam Ayvazyan’s Jughabook, have been digitalized by Armenianhouse.org. Illustrations 1-35 are available here, 36-72 here and 73-107 here.

*Jurgis Baltrušaitis and Dickran Kouymjian, “Julfa on the Arax and Its Funerary Monuments,”  Armenian Studies/Etudes arméniennes: In Memoriam Haïg Berbérian, D. Kouymjian, editor,  Lisbon: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1986, pp. 9-53. The publication is available in a PDF version at the Research section.