-- Prior to my Sabbatical travels to Armenia last summer, the No. 1 FAQ was, "Where in the world is Armenia?" The rich Armenian culture developed in the Caucasus, the peninsula between the Baltic and ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Following a six-hour interrogation at the Investigative Committee, Asoghik Father Karapetyan, director of the museums and archives of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, told ...

The Tatev Monastery is just one of five UNESCO-listed religious sites worth visiting in Armenia, the world’s first Christian nation. Eric Martin/Figarophoto, Redux Since Armenia’s adoption of ...

Thanks to the initiative of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), since 1982, April 18 has been celebrated as the International Day for Monuments and Sites. This year, it is held ...

Azerbaijanis consider the Armenian Amaras monastery complex in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) as Caucasian Albanian, “Geghard” Scientific Analytical Foundation states in an article. The latter reads as ...

Reaching towards the sky, they rise vertically from the valley floor for a hundred metres and more: Masses of basalt columns, side by side and on top of each other, as if glued together like gigantic ...

Since Armenia’s adoption of Christianity in 301 C.E., the nation’s monasteries have been central to its worship traditions. After 17 centuries, these UNESCO-recognized sites became deep community ...