However, khatchkars appear also with other significances. They were being erected on different accasions to commemorate military victories, immortallize historically important events, and to commemorate the completion of churches, fountains, bridges and other constructions. For example, the Zakarian brothers, in the inscription on the khatchkar erected at Amberd (1202 A.D.) mention their victories against the Seljuk, and Vaneni builds the bridge of Sanahin and erects a khatchkar (probably after 1192 A.D.) to immortalize of her prematurely dead husband, King Abas.
The uses of khatchkars were verious and diverse. Khatchkars were constructed on regular flagstones and, in some cases, directly on rocks or into walls, even placed on roofs, erected near entrances and situated in natural surroundings (monastric complexes, or in cemeteries). Khatchkars were also erected on plinth, on the ground, or directly on boulders single or in groups.
Khatchkars were also erected on the occasions of restoration of churches and donations to monasteries. Also numerious are the khatchkars which are set into church walls and which, on the whole, have a donatory significance. But the khatchkars served also as grave stones, and numerous such specimens exist.
Khatchkars are also valuable for their lithographs which frequently include important historical information, help to date the monument, reveal the names of the commissioner and the master stone-mason and the occasion for the erecting the khatchkar. In this sense, khatchkars represent important documents of the history of the Armenian people.