Studies show that a part of the spiritual and cultural heritage of Artsakh has been destroyed, and the other part is either being destroyed or is endangered. All this was completed by the “Fact Verification Platform” with digital calculation. As a result of the 44-day war of 2020, about 2,000 cultural monuments and monuments – monasteries and churches, khachkars, tombstones, tombs, cemeteries and sanctuaries – came under the control of Baku. Among them were the Holy Savior Ghazanchetsots Cathedral of Shushi was  the Church of Saint Hovhannes the Baptist (Green Hour). The “Monitoring of the Cultural Heritage of Artsakh” program published an analysis in 2022, according to which the total number of spiritual and cultural monuments in Artsakh exceeds 4,000, 10 percent of which are pre-Christian, about 1.5 percent – Muslim, the rest are Armenian Christian monuments and date from the 4th-19th centuries.

As a result of the September 2023 war, Artsakh was completely depopulated and three months later, the “Caucasian Heritage Protection” organization published the announcement of the sixth monitoring of the state of cultural heritage in Artsakh.

The document mentions 44 spiritual and cultural monuments, 8 of which are destroyed, 12 are damaged, and 24 are in danger.

In June 2024, the “Protection of Caucasian Heritage” organization published the results of the seventh monitoring of cultural heritage in Artsakh.

In just 6 months, the number of destroyed cultural monuments reached 14, the number of damaged monuments reached 12, and the number of endangered monuments reached 31.