The 12th-century Arakelots Monastery, a border monastery in the Tavush forests, is located a few kilometers from the villages of Acharkut and Kirants, on the left bank of the Kirants River. Austrian scholar Jasmin Dum Tragut has proposed including the monastery in the list of 14 most endangered... 2025-02-10 At the Vardan Achemyan Drama Theater in Gyumri, students of the Gyumri Youth Center of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin staged the play "The Nest." It is about the journey of an individual who enters the Youth Center and his or her own corner, which resembles a home and a nest. More than 70... 2025-02-10 They listen to and play classical music. The “Music Therapy for Little Ones” program is implemented by specialists. At the initiative of Father Grigor Grigoryan, the “Arev-Children” Children’s Health and Development Center NGO deals with their problems. For five years now, the center has been... 2025-02-10 In Washington, D.C., Archbishop Garegin Hambardzumyan participated in the International Religious Freedom Summit and the National Prayer Breakfast. He presented issues related to the fundamental rights of the Armenians forcibly displaced from Artsakh, the need to protect Artsakh’s cultural and... 2025-02-10 Vache Sharafyan has dedicated a new composition to the 850th anniversary of the death of Saint Nerses the Graceful, Patriarch of All Armenians and the reconsecration of the Mother Cathedral. The premiere of the composition “Merciful, Prayerful” marked the beginning of the 16th Festival of Armenian... 2025-02-10
40 days after the Nativity, the Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates the feast of the Presentation of the Baby Jesus to the Temple, known as the Presentation of the Lord. The pre-feast is celebrated on the evening of February 13. At the end of the liturgy, according to folk custom, a bonfire is... 2025-02-10 |