Goshavank, Medieval monastery complex in Tavush Province, Armenia

Goshavank is a monastery complex on the right bank of the Getik River at the edge of Gosh village. It includes the churches of St. Astvatsatsin (1191–1196), St. Gregory (1208–1241), and St. Gevorg (1254), a gavit (1197–1203), a two-storey building with a book depository and a bell tower, and several chapels. The buildings are of stone, and the complex also has khachkars and the tomb of Mkhitar Gosh.

Mkhitar Gosh founded the monastery in 1188 with the support of Prince Ivane Zakaryan, near the earthquake-destroyed Getik monastery, and moved the community there. It was first called Nor Getik and renamed Goshavank after Gosh's death in 1213. In the 13th century it was a major religious, educational and cultural center, with a school teaching languages, grammar, philosophy and rhetoric; Kirakos Gandzaketsi and Vanakan Vardapet studied there.

The monastery was first called Nor Getik, after the Getik River, and took the name Goshavank after Mkhitar Gosh died in 1213. Master carver Poghos made the pair of cross-stones flanking the west facade of the Church of St. Grigor Lusavorich; the southern one was moved to the History Museum of Armenia in 1935. The northern stone, still in place, was set up by Vardapet Sargis in 1291.

The monastery stands at the edge of Gosh village on the right bank of the Getik River, with the main monuments grouped around the gavit and reached by uneven stone paths and steps. The site was landscaped in 1978 and a museum was created there in 1972. About two kilometres away, in the forest, lies Gosh Lich, the small lake named after Mkhitar Gosh.

The refectory and book depository north of the gavit were built under abbot Martiros before 1241; in 1291 the vardapets Dasapet and Karapet, with architects Zakios and Grigor, replaced the wooden roof with two pairs of intersecting arches and added the Church of the Holy Archangels above. This two-storey book depository-church-bell tower became the model for 14th-century Armenian two-storey churches.