During the 44-day war of 2020 and after the Azerbaijani occupation of Shushi, Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), the Armenian Holy All Savior Ghazanchetsots Church in the city has repeatedly come under the spotlight of experts.

On October 8, 2020, the church was bombed twice and subjected to vandalism by Azerbaijan.

And as a result of its “restoration” carried out by the Azerbaijani side, the dome spire, one of the important elements expressing the church being Armenian, was removed.

Monument Watch, which monitors the cultural heritage of Artsakh, writes that Ghazanchetsots is again giving Azerbaijanis no peace. On August 6 and 7, 2026, videos appeared on Facebook, the footage of which shows that two five-story residential buildings are being built in the area adjacent to the church, and their location and height change the visibility of the church, disguising it.

If previously the Azerbaijani side focused on the physical damage to Holy All Savior Ghazanchetsots, the removal of individual architectural elements, and the change in the Armenian identity of the monument during the “restoration,” now the latest construction raises another important issue.

After the distortion of the Armenian history of the church by Azerbaijan, we are now dealing with the elimination of its visibility. Thus, the Holy All Savior Ghazanchetsots is gradually being pushed out of the visual space of Shushi, becoming a monument hidden behind construction and invisible to the eyes of the residents.