The Urartians were one of the most important actors of the Iron Age settled in the eastern partsof Anatolia. Majority of their works in this mountainous region of Anatolia, where they struggledfor life, were constructed by using the rocks in the mountains surrounding them. Following thesepeople who brought the mountains to heels, Armenians chose this region as their living space.Armenians succeeded in using these rocks offered by the nature mostly by carving them. Vanprovince and its surrounding area host many works left from the Urartian and Armenian periods.Some of the structures that were constructed using bedrocks lead to confusion about the periodthey were constructed in and the function they were created for. Of these, the leading ones arerock tombs carved from the main rock, underground tombs and religious buildings. The reason whythis issue is dwelt on in this paper is that a structure which is church according to our point of viewwas introduced as a two-layered Urartian tomb in a project supported by TUBITAK (The Scientificand Technological Research Council of Turkey) in 2009. This study dwells on the introduction andarchitectural characteristics of Ucpinar Rock-Cut Church I and Ucpinar Rock-Cut Church II which arelocated in Bağlama village of Gevaş district in Van province. The structure which was claimed to betomb has a construction technique different from the construction techniques of tombs. Moreover,it has an Armenian inscription in addition to apses and naoi in it. Therefore, we believe that bothstructures are churches rather than Urartian period rock-cut tombs.