Romania, Suceava, Zamca Monastery

Zamca Monastery is an Armenian monastery, built in 1606 by Armenian refugees who settled in the Principality of Moldova in the 14th century during the reign of the ruler Alexander I the Good.
The architectural complex consists of three buildings - the main Armenian Catholic church of St. Auxentius (1551), a 26-meter-high bell tower (1606) on the eastern side and a building with the chapel of St. Gregory (1606) on the western side, where the entrance to the monastery courtyard is located.
In the middle of the main temple of St. Auxentius, there is a tombstone of Agopsha (Jacob) Vartan with the following inscription: “This is the tombstone of Agopsha, son of Amir (prince), he is the founder of the holy church, died in 1051 (= 1602 according to the Armenian calendar).”