A stone ceiling of the Gavit (hall) in the Arakelots Vank (monastery) at Getashen, Armenia
This Laternendecke ceiling, called 'Hazarashen' in Armenia, is a
substituted system of the Armenian wooden Hazarashen by stone.
Although many researchers of Armenian architecture insist that
this system is the origin of Armenian stone domes, I cannot approve it.
That the corbeling system can never generate the true dome structure
can be comprehended, when looking over the history of Indian architecture.


This is a developed form of wooden Hazarashen ceiling
in a folk house in Georgea. This corbeling system
does absolutely not become a true dome.
(A Folk House from Akhaltsihe, Open Air Museum of Ethnography, Tbilisi)