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 Tuesday, December 24 2024 17:19
Aline Grigoryan

15 historical, cultural sites granted status of monuments in Armenia 

15 historical, cultural sites granted status of monuments in Armenia 

ArmInfo. This year, 15 historical and cultural sites located in Yerevan and various regions of the country have received the status of monument. This was reported during the 5th meeting of the expert commission of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports (MESC) of Armenia.

As reported by the MESC, among the newly acquired monuments of local significance are the building at 50 Mashtots Avenue in the Kentron administrative district (formerly the Nairi cinema, 1952-1954), School No. 55 named after A. Chekhov (1947-1951) on M. Baghramyan Avenue, as well as the building of the Institute of Physics of the Armenian SSR, located at 18 Baghramyan Avenue (1948).

The residential building at 7 Tigran Mets Avenue in Vanadzor, Lori Region (the building of the Chinese bookstore, 1954), as well as the Palanduzants residential building on 2 Zoravar Andranik Street (second half of the 19th century) and the Ambar mill in the village of Chiva, Vayots Dzor Region (13th-14th centuries) have also received the status of local monuments.

"The status of monuments of national significance was given to the Mausoleum in the village of Artagyugh in the Lori region (3rd century BC), the tombstone of the 15th-17th centuries, the Nor Geghi-1 open station (Lower Paleolithic) in the Kotayk region, two khachkars in the city of Kapan in the Syunik region (10th- 12th centuries), the khachkar in the village of Aragadzor and "Vardanes" in the village of Chiva in the Vayots Dzor region (10th-12th centuries and 10th-15th centuries AD), the cemetery on its territory (7th- 14th centuries AD), the khachkar (10th-11th centuries AD) and the monument (7th century AD), "the Ministry added.

The meeting also discussed the projects of the protection zones of the Tsaghkavank monastery complex in the village of Tegenik in the Kotayk region (7th-17th centuries), the Karenis monastery complex in the village of Karenis (the monastery of the apostles Matevos and Andreas, 6th-7th centuries), the bell tower- chapel in the village of Halidzor in the Syunik region (1989), the monastery complex of the Arants desert (the Great Desert of Syunik, 1608-1613), as well as the monastery in the village of Tatev, the Great Tatev Desert (2nd half of the 17th-18th centuries) and 30 other monuments.

"All projects deemed acceptable will be sent for approval to the  heads of communities and state bodies of territorial administration, after which they will be approved by the Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of the Republic of Armenia," the MESCS summarized.  

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