Harichavank is a monastery near the village of Harich in Shirak Province, Armenia, about 2 miles (3 kilometers) southeast of Artik. Its founding date is unknown, but the church of Saint Gregory is probably no later than the seventh century. The Cathedral of the Holy Mother of God was ordered by Zakare Zakarian and his brother Ivane and completed in 1201.
The cathedral has a cruciform plan and a twenty-sided drum with a decorative band. Its east facade has a relief of the Zakarian brothers holding a model of the church. The larger gavit has four pillars and a carved stalactite ceiling. The narthex was built before 1219 and has multicolored stonework at its entrance.
Kipchak Turks occupied the monastery from 1120 to 1191. In 1850 Harich became the summer seat of the Catholicos of Echmiadzin.
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