Kanach Zham

Saint John the Baptist Church, typically called Kanach Zham, is an Armenian Apostolic church placed in Shusha, Nagorno-Karabakh; just uphill from the Ghazanchetsots Cathedral. Kanach Zham means "Green Church" in Armenian that is because at one time the church's domes had been painted inexperienced. This church is likewise on occasion called by way of the call of the antique church in its place Gharabakhtsots in honor of the farmers from Nagorno-Karabakh who constructed it.

According to the constructing inscription, the church becomes constructed in 1818 within the place of the previous Gharabaghtsots wood church. In the walls is positioned the previous church's inscription. The dome of the ramparted church and its chapel are seen from very a long way. The latter have architectural innovations. The church has a cruciform scheme. In path of placing side-chapels beneath the altar growing, the eastern facade of the church and the chapel becoming a member of to it from west stand out with precise interior decoration, way to which this monument isolated among the analogous architectural constructions.