Saint Thaddaeus monastery

Saint Thaddaeus monastery – or as some call it, Black Church, is a church dedicated to Saint Thaddaeus, also known as Saint Jude, the priest that evangelized the region of Armenia and Persia. He was martyred in Armenia and revered as an apostle of the Armenian church. The structure of the church is the same as Etchmiazdin Cathedral, the mother church of the Armenian Apostolic Church. The earliest section of the church shows black and white stone was used in its construction, explaining the name Black Church.