{"id":57048,"date":"2020-03-30T17:05:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T13:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.armgeo.am\/armenian-hazarashen\/"},"modified":"2020-12-01T13:20:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T09:20:33","slug":"armenian-hazarashen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armgeo.am\/en\/armenian-hazarashen\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Hazarashen"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Armenian traditional house, there were two main types of roofs. The first one was relatively simple. It consisted of logs, which were laid parallel to the walls and gradually narrowed close to the hole at the top. The name of the hole was yerdik<\/em>. This type of roof construction was common in regions that were rich in construction wood. For example, Chorokh valley and villages of Artsakh. The second type of roof was built from polyhedral and polygonal frames, the logs of which gradually narrowed in the direction of the roof hole. This kind of roofs were common mainly in snowy and rainy regions without timber. They were the most common in the Upper Armenia. Such roofs were called Hazarashen. They got their name from the \u201cthousand\u201d (hazar) pieces of wood used to build the roof.<\/p>\n\n