Sevan Island

Sevan Island / Սևանի կղզի
Sevan Peninsula / Սևանի թերակղզի

Sevan Peninsula from afar.
Geography
Location	Gegharkunik Province, Armenia
Coordinates
Highest elevation	1,950 m (6,400 ft)
Country

Sevan Island (Armenian: Սևանի կղզի Sevani kğzi), now Sevan Peninsula (Armenian: Սևանի թերակղզի Sevani t'erakğzi) was an island in the northwestern part of Lake Sevan in Armenia. After the artificial draining of Lake Sevan, which started in the Joseph Stalin era, the water level fell about 20 metres, and the island transformed into a peninsula. At the southern shore of this newly created peninsula, a guesthouse of the Armenian Writers' Union was built. The eastern shore is occupied by the Armenian president's summer residence, while the monastery's still active seminary moved to newly constructed buildings at the northern shore of the peninsula.

Sevan Island is home to a ninth-century Armenian Cathedral church, known as Sevanavank, which is one of the most visited tourist attractions in Armenia.

File:Sevan island 1937.jpg

Sevan Island in 1937.

Gallery

• Sevanakmonasterys.jpg

  The island and the monastery of Sevan during the 19th century (Paris, 1869, T. Deyrolle)

• Sevan lake in Armenia 1974.jpg

  1974

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Panoramic view of the Sevan Peninsula

See also

• Lake Sevan
• Sevanavank