Category: Christianity

Celebration of Terndez Candlemas

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 […]

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 […]

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