Nerkin Sasnashen (Armenian: Ներքին Սասնաշեն); formerly known as Nerkin Karakoymaz and Nerkin Sasunashen, is a village in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. It is home to the ruins of a 7th-century Armenian monastery. The village contains a granite memorial marking the crash site of a United States Air Force C-130 shot down by Soviet MiG-17s on 2 September 1958 with the loss of 17 U.S. personnel.