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Built in the late 10th or early 11th century, this private chapel of the Pahlavuni family overlooks the Tsaghkotsadzor valley. Commissioned by Prince Grigor Pahlavuni, it features a 12-sided exterior with deep niches and an unusual hexafoil interior, where six apses surround a central dome with 12 windows. The southwest entrance once had a covered porch, now lost. A 1040 inscription records its role as a family sepulchre, with rooms built for Grigor, his son Hamza, and daughter Seda. The L-shaped crypt, later desecrated by treasure hunters, once housed at least three sealed graves. The interior retains faint 13th-century frescoes, Armenian, Russian, and Arabic graffiti, and architectural details suggesting later restorations. Source: Virtual Ani - https://skfb.ly/p9r6Z