During the years when Nagorno Karabakh was a part of Azerbaijan and during the period of the Azeri military aggression in 1991-1994 architectural monuments of Karabakh were being barbarously destroyed, Slava Sargsian, head of the Office for Protection of Monuments of Nagorno Karabakh told Arminfo agency. In his words, in 1988-1991 before the liberation of the town of Shushi the Azeris three times set fire to the Church of Kazanchetsots of Christ the Savior, the masterpiece of the Armenian architecture of the 19-th century. Besides, the basilica of the Church of Aguletsots was destroyed; the Church of Kanach-zham was turned into a gallery of mineral waters; the Church of Meghretsots was partially demolished and converted into a summer cinema. The Azeris destroyed thousands of historical monuments. Karabakh social anthropologist Hrachik Harutyunian states that in year 1962 he witnessed how the Russian Church of Shushi (the name of the church was not identified) was used as a cinema. According to the old residents the Church functioned during the period of 1820-1920. During the soviet years - till 1963 - it was used as a club. Later both the Armenian Church of Aguletstots and the Russian Church were completely ruined by order of Azeri authorities and a House of Culture and a school have been built in the place, Hrachik Harutyunian notes.