Sunday 18 January 2015

Marina Poghosyan‎I am a descendant of a survivor of the Armenian Genocide! Yesterday at 11:00 · Haghartsin Monastery


Located 18 kilometers from Dilijan, Haghartsin monastery belongs to those architectural pieces that were built in the 12th-13th centuries. The monastery was built far from the roads and noisy city life, in a safe place enclosed in the remarkable Armenian nature.
It is believed that the monastery’s name has the roots “hagh” meaning game and “artsiv” meaning an eagle. Going back to the origins, it is said at the monastery’s dedication an eagle was soari...
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