Description
"The Holy Apostles Church also known as the Cathedral of Kars is a 10th century Armenian church in Kars, Turkey. It was constructed when Kars was part of Bagratid Armenia, and was completed in the mid-940s under the rule of the Bagratid Armenian King Abas, who had transferred his capital to Kars.In 1579 the Ottoman Turks converted the church into a mosque. After the Russian capture of Kars in 1877 it was converted to a Russian Orthodox church. In 1918, after the fall of Kars to Turks, the cathedral was again turned into a mosque."