Parağa


Parağa is a village and municipality in the Ordubad Rayon of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. It is located in the near of the Ordubad-Tivi highway, 48 km in the north-west from the district center, on the left bank of the Gilanchay river, on the slope of the Zangezur ridge. Its population is busy with gardening, vegetable-growing, animal husbandry. There are secondary school, club, library and a medical center in the village. It has a population of 306.

Armenian Monuments

The Surp Shimavon church was located in Paragha village; in the countryside was the Surp Hakob monastery, dating from the 12th century, with its main church, probably from the 17th century, being a large domed basilica.