Medieval Armenian monastic refectories, exemplified at Gandzasar and Haghpat, took the form of long stone-vaulted halls divided down their length by paired pillars, with continuous stone benches along the perimeter walls and a pantry-with-hearth attached at one end. The geometry — half dining-hall, half chapter-house — has no exact parallel in Byzantine or Western European monasticism.
1516Architecture & Monasteries
