40 days after Christmas, Armenian Apostolic Church of all Armenians celebrate “Tyarnyndaraj” (Candlemas Day) or also known among people as “Terndez”, which means “The Lord is with you”. According to Gospel, 40 days after the birth of Christ Mary and Joseph took the baby to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord and consecrate to the temple. They met an old […]
The Celebration of Christmas in Armenia
Christmas is a time when the “Box of Miracles” opens to grant everyone with love, kindness and realization of dreams. Our souls are filled with cherished feelings, strong belief and happy mood. And today, on this festive evening all Christians with their children and even small babies in their arms along with all who await the Savior hurry to the manger […]
The Porch of Neghuts Monastery
The porches are unique structures in the Armenian architecture. The porches reproduce the forms of the Armenian national houses developed during many centuries and present half-civic or half-ecclesiastical structures of the national architectural style. The Armenian architects mostly used the four-pillar architectural style to construct the porches. The porch of Neghuts St. Astvatsatsin Monastery belongs to that kind of porches. During […]
Annunciation of Holy Virgin, St. Resurrection
Mothers’ Day and Holy Easter Spring continues to fill our hearts and souls with happy festive mood. It has become a beautiful tradition to celebrate the festive month from March 8 to April 7 devoted to the holiday of women in Armenia.
Msho Charentir
The Giant Treasure of Matenadaran One of the gorgeous sights of Yerevan is Mashtots Avenue which stretches along many beautiful buildings, but the most gracious architectural one stands at the highest place at the edge of the avenue. This building made of steel color basalt is Matenadaran, research institute of ancient manuscripts after M. Mashtots […]
Monastery of Ptghni
Monastery of Ptghni is situated in village Ptghni, Kotaiq Region, near city Abovyan. It has such ornaments that already were used on stone buildings in 6-7th centuries. Still remaining of an equal wing stone and ornaments of grape and pomegranate are seen on the walls. During excavations in 1964 it turned out that the church […]
Arzakhan, Monastery of Neghuts
On foots of mountain Tsakhunyats is situated village Arzakhan (Kotayk Region /Marz/). It is called Arzakhan, Arzhakhand. 3 km above the village is situated Monastery of Holly Mother (Surb Astvatsatsin) of Neghuts. The monastery was built in 10th century. The Monastery is surrounded by virgin woods and near it one may find many khachkars (cross […]
The Gospel of Sebastia of 1066 (Matenadaran N311)
The Treasures of Matenadaran The manuscripts of 11th century make a separate group of manuscripts in the history of Armenian miniature art. Though very few manuscripts of that period have reached to us, they express the nature and rich traditions of Armenian miniature art of the time. The sizes of the manuscripts of that period are […]
The Great Lent Purification of Body and Soul
According to the church calendar we have festive and fasting days in the year. There are 158 fasting days the part of which are lent days and the others are long lasting fasts. One of the fasts, the most popular with people, is the Great Lent. It lasts 48 days from Bun Barekendan (Fat Tuesday) to […]
Saint Vardanants Day
The Commemoration of the Heroes The Armenian Church marks the holiday of St. Vardanants on Thursday preceding Fat Tuesday (Bun Barekendan) which is celebrated on the eve of the Great Lent. The Holy Vardanants festival is celebrated in memory of Armenian Commander Vardan Mamikonyan and his comrades-in-arms who martyred in the Battle of Avarayr against […]