Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Surb Karapet Monastery

Surb Karapet Monastery

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Original – Surb Karapet Monastery was the second most prominent Armenian monastery (after Etchmiadzin Cathedral). Armenian tradition claims the remains of John the Baptist were stored at the site in the fourth century. It was destroyed during the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and its stones have since been used by local Kurds to built their houses.
The precise date of this photo is unknown, but it was certainly taken sometime before 1915.

Reason

High resolution photo of an important destroyed monastery.

Articles in which this image appears

Surb Karapet Monastery

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Architecture

Creator

Vartan A. Hampikian (retouched by User:MjolnirPants)

• Support as nominator – Երևանցի ^talk 01:56, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
• Comments First of all, odd thumbnailer bug: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Surb_Karapet_Monastery_Hampikian_LoC.png/1270px-Surb_Karapet_Monastery_Hampikian_LoC.png - I was going to ask what had happened to the image, then I saw: nothing, the thumbnailer just added lines. Secondly, while uploading as PNG is a really good idea, another bug with Wikipedia's thumbnailing means a JPEG should also be uploaded, for better thumbnails. As for the image itself: it's a nice find, but I'm a little uncomfortable throwing out so much, but I can see that as reasonable... but we should probably cut some sky as well to balance it out, particularly given the white something lowering into the picture on the right. I think the copyright checks out: Photograph had to be taken before the 1915 destruction of the monastery... But I would like an explanation of that "no known restrictions on publication" the LoC puts up. Was it also published before 1923, or was it simply not renewed? Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 09:44, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Jobas (talk) 16:44, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 02:20, 28 February 2015 (UTC)