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Attraction · Tuşba · Updated on 1 November 2026.

Ktuts Monastery in Tuşba

Ktuts Monastery is an attraction in Tuşba, Van. This place has a story in the app.

Ktuts Monastery in Tuşba
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Photo: SUZANNE KHARDALIAN HOLMQUIST · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0View the photo on Wikimedia Commons

The story

Story · Ktuts Monastery

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You're standing at Ktuts Monastery, on a tiny island in Lake Van, in eastern Turkey. In Turkish the island is called Çarpanak. Ktuts is Armenian, and it means beak. Have a look around: of what was once a whole monastery, only a church survives, along with its gavit, a kind of entrance hall. Everything else is gone.

Read the whole story in the Outdoor Pitstop app: check in at this place and it is yours (with Pro; new users are Pro for the first 4 weeks).

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10 photos from Wikimedia Commons. In the app you add your own photo when you are there.

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