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- From ancient geometric groundwork to massive rock walls, the country's built environment dates back millennia. This history was continuously influenced by regional cultures and religions, and more recently, by large building projects.
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During the third millennium B.C, prehistoric Armenian architecture was already distinctive. The most common feature was its groundwork, which incorporated many geometrical shapes, ultimately forming a cell shape. An example of such architecture can be found in Kültəpə, near Nakhchivan.
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Given its strategic geographical status as a corridor between seas, Armenia spent much of its early history occupied by one of a host of neighboring superpowers. The period when Armenia was most able to thrive on its own terms, Levon Avodyan says, was when the powers surrounding it were evenly matched, and hence when none was able to dominate the r...
It’s hard to say what life looked like in pre-Christian Armenia, Avdoyan admits, given that no Armenian written language existed to record historical events during that time. But there are certain things we can be reasonably sure about. Zoroastrianism, a pre-Islamic faithof Persian origin, predominated. But a wide array of regionally variant pagan ...
Armenian manuscripts are to this day world-renowned among medieval scholars. “They’re remarkable for their beauty,” Avdoyan says. Many have survived in such disparate places as the Matenadaran repository in Yerevan, the Armenian Catholic monasteries of San Lazzaro in Venice, and the Walters Art Museum in Maryland. Historians define “medieval Armeni...
It is something of a rarity for a country’s distinctive architecture to inspire ardent national pride, but Christina Maranci says such is most definitely the case in Armenia. “Many Armenians will tell you about Armenian architecture,” she says. To this day, engineering is a highly revered discipline in Armenia, and many study it. “A lot of Armenian...
With the dawn of national Christianity, Byzantineand Cappadocianinfluences began to take hold. And places of worship began to dot the land. “The first churches upon the conversion of Armenia to Christianity are largely basilicas,” Maranci notes. “They’re vaulted stone masonry structures, but they don’t use domes for the most part, and they don’t us...
Many have heard the phrase “Armenian diaspora,” generally used as a blanket term to encompass those Armenians who fled the region around the time of the genocide and other killings. During and after World War I, an estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed—the Turkish government, for its part, disputesthe death toll and denies that there was a ge...
Between the rich artistic and religious history of the Armenian homeland and the various cultural adaptations of diasporic Armenian populations worldwide, the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritagehad its work cut out for it in selecting elements of Armenian culture to showcase at this year’s Folklife Festival. The Folklife team sett...
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- Yererouk or Ererouk. Church. This basilica, located near the village of Anipemza, is one of the earliest surviving Christian monuments in the country.
- Etchmiadzin Cathedral. Cathedral, Church. Located in the city of Vagharshapat, this cathedral is a very important landmark of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
- The Church of Saint Gayane. Church. This seventh century Armenian church in Vagharshapat town is within walking distance of the Etchmiadzin Cathedral.
- Saint Hripsime Church. Church. The town of Vagharshapat is home to another significant architectural monument of Armenia: St Hripsime Church, which is considered to be one of the oldest surviving churches in the country.
The architectural heritage of the Armenian people has not been brought out in full; the best studied are the monuments on the territory of the Republic of Armenia.
The Republic of Armenia is surrounded by a land border to the west by Turkey, north by Georgia, and east by Azerbaijan. Modern Armenia is much smaller than ancient Armenia, which once stretched from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea and from the Mediterranean Sea to Lake Urmia in modern-day Iran.
Feb 9, 2022 · The most recent architectural vestige at Garni [ 2, 164] is the bath, probably of the fourth century, excavated and restored like Erebuni [1], Karmir Blur, and the temple of Garni [ 2, 164] with the encouragement and support of the Armenian government.
Sep 20, 2020 · The old building of the American University of Armenia (AUA) in Yerevan was built in 1979 by two of the most prominent Armenian architects of the time, Mark Grigoryan and Henrik Arakelyan. The building has a symmetric triangular shape with a light-coloured facade, a conceptual approach to balance its formal mass.
