Djulfa Virtual Memorial and Museum

Academic Publications

Publications Available Online:

Argam Ayvazyan. Djulfa (Jugha). Yerevan: Sovetakan Groghm, 1984 (in Armenian with English and Russian summary). Digitalized by Armenianhouse.org, 2007
Jurgis Baltrušaitis and Dickran Kouymjian. Julfa on the Arax and Its Funerary Monuments. Armenian Studies. In Memoriam Haig Berberian. Galouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 1986 (PDF)
“Julfa: The Annihilation of Armenian Cemetery by Nakhichevan’s Azerbaijani Authorities,” Report by Research on Armenian Architecture, 2006 (PDF)
Simon Maghakyan. Sacred Stones Silenced in Azerbaijan. History Today (London): November 2007. Also available at Britannica.
Simon Maghakyan and Sarah Pickman. A Regime Conceals Its Erasure of Indigenous Armenian Culture. Hyperallergic: February 18, 2019
Simon Maghakyan. Special investigation: Declassified satellite images show erasure of Armenian churches. The Art Newspaper (London), June 1, 2021

Hamlet Petrosyan. “Iconography of Jugha’s Cross-Stones.” Yerevan: Historical-Philological Journal, 2004, issue 1 (in Armenian with English and Russian summary)

Aram Vruyr. “Jugha” (1915). Republished in Yerevan: Historical Philological Journal, 1967, issue 4 (in Armenian with Russian summary)

Rouben Galichian. The Invention of History: Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Showcasing of Imagination. Gomidas Institute: London, 2010. Second Edition

High-Resolution Satellite Imagery and the Destruction of Cultural Artifacts in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan (a report by the American Association for the Advancement of Science – Science and Human Rights Program)

International Media Articles

Anatoli Yakobson. “Historical-Artistic Observations about Armenian Khachkars.” Yerevan: Historical Philological Journal, 1978, issue 1 (in Russian with Armenian summary)

Mourad Hasratian. “L’art des khatchkars de l’école de Djougha.” Environmental Design: Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre, 1999 (in French)

“Jugha.” In Ghevond Alishan’s Sisakan. Venice: 1893. (in Armenian).

Frédéric DuBois de Montperreux. Voyage autour du Caucase, chez les Tcherkesses et les Abkhases, en Colchide. University of Lausanne, 1840 (in French)

Voyages et missions du Père Alexandre de Rhodes: en la Chine et autres royaumes de l’Orient. Julien, Lanier et Cie., 1854 (in French)

Mykil Bachoian. “The Destruction of Djulfa.” Law Journal for Social Justice. Arizona State University. April 6, 2011

Publications Available in Print Only:

Argam Ayvazgyan. The Symphony of the Destroyed Jugha Khatchkars. (Published in English, Russian, and Armenian.) Yerevan, 2007

The Destruction of Jugha and the Entire Armenian Cultural Heritage in Nakhijevan. Documentation Submitted to UNESCO. Switzerland-Armenia Association: Bern, 2006 (and 2010). Click here for order information

Argam Ayvazyan. Khachkars of Djugha. Yerevan: Hushardzan, 1993

Suren Salumyan and Vardan Harutyunyan. “Inscriptions from Old Jugha.” (In Armenian.) Lraber, 1983, no. 12

N. Marr, “Des Monuments du cimetiere de Djoulfa.” (In French.) Xristjanskii Vostok, vol. IV, no. 2, p, 198 et pl. IX

Levon Azarian and Armen Manoukian. Khatchkar. Milan: Documenti di architettura armena, 1969

S. Ter-Avetisyan. City of Djugha. Tiflis, 1937 (in Russian)

M. Hasratyan. The Jugha craft school of the khachkar art. In Armenia and the Christian East by P.M. Muradyan. Yerevan: Gitutyun, 2000 (in Armenian)

Gegham Ter-Galstyan (Gnuni). “Jugha’s Excavations.” Submission to Mshak Newspaper, November 2, 1904, National Archives of Armenia, Editorial Collection of Mshak, Case Number 180, pp. 38-39 (in Armenian)

Hayk Demoyan. Azerbaijan: Vandalism as Usual. Yerevan: Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute, 2010

E. Korkhmazyan. About a mythical image seen in 15-17th century khachkars. Ashtanak (Yerevan), 1998, number 2 (in Armenian)