ARMENIA - Noravank

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Noravank Monastery is situated deep in the Noravank Canyon. It was built in 13th century and was designed by the renowned calligrapher, miniature painter, sculptor and architect from the late 13th to mid 14th centuries, Momik. He developed a completely new approach for the church called ‘Burtelashen’ at Noravank, with a two-storey crowned rotunda.

ARMENIA - Khor Virap

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Khor Virap (meaning deep pit) is a monastery rests atop a hill in Ararat Valley, near the border with Turkey. It is where Grigor Luisavorich who later became St. Gregory the Illuminator was imprisoned for 13 years before curing King Tiridates III of a disease. And this caused the conversion of the king and Armenia into the first Christian nation in the world in year 301.

ARMENIA - Garni

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Along the road from the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Gerhard Monastery lies Garni. This village has an ancient history and is best known for the Hellenistic Garni Temple, built more than a thousand year ago.

ARMENIA - Geghard Monastery

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Geghard is another incredible medieval Armenian monastery, partly carved out of a mountain, which located in northeast of Garni, higher up the gorge of the Azat river.