Category Heritage Monitoring

Amidst reports of the destruction of Armenian religious sites in the city of Stepanakert/Khankendi, CHW today reported that the Armenian Genocide memorial in Stepanakert/Khankendi has been destroyed (see featured image above). Erected on the 100th anniversary of the 1915 atrocities,…

Using Sentinel 2 satellite imagery, CHW can confirm reports of the destruction of the Holy Mother of God Church (Surb Astvatsatsin), consecrated by the Armenian Apostolic Church in 2019 in Khankendi The destruction took place between March 3 and April…

In April 2024, CHW reported the destruction of St. John the Baptist Church, a 19th century Armenian religious center and cultural landmark that had stood in the historic city of Shusha for 177 years. Using a new method of satellite…

As CHW prepares for a new spring satellite monitoring mission over Karabakh, we’ve updated our dashboard to enable user searches of documented destruction, damage and threats to cultural heritage since 2021. New findings will be shared as they emerge. Explore…

CHW has released a new story map calling attention to excavations at The “Red Cross” Church of Bina Using an array of satellite platforms, CHW was able to narrow the window for these excavations to the span of just a…

The 17th century Holy Savior Monastery located near Təpəkənd/Tonashen in Azerbaijan’s Aghdara District has been damaged. Between October 2024 and August 2025 most of the metal roofing that had been added as part of a 2009 restoration (in then Nagorno-Karabakh)…

Today CHW released its eighth report on Armenian cultural heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh. The report documents the results of two rounds of satellite-based monitoring of over 500 cultural heritage sites in the region. As the report notes in its summary assessment,…

CHW Lead Research Dr. Husik Ghulyan provided expert testimony to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) hearing on Religious Freedom Conditions in Azerbaijan today. In his remarks he provided a synopsis of the current state of at-risk cultural heritage…

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