kilissa

Updated: July 4, 2026

We noted the landmarks carefully, the little snow-bed, the head of the glen covered with reddish masses of stone and gravel; and high above it, standing out of the face of the great cone of Ararat, a bold peak or rather projecting tooth of black rock, which our Cossacks called the Monastery, and which, I suppose from the same fancied resemblance to a building, is said to be called in Tatar Tach Kilissa, "the church rock."

- Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6