Tag Archive: 19րդ դար
Gyumri: The Northern Capital. By Vigen Galstyan
A casual visitor to Armenia does not usually contemplate too long about what to see. There seems to be an unspoken, but much cemented itinerary that suits just about everyone around – the locals, the guides, the mini-bus drivers and the tourists...Read More
House & Factory of Ter-Avetikyan Brothers
This building was initially only the publicly visible part of a large complex of structures that contained the Ter-Avitkyan cast-iron factory. After nationalisation in late 1920s, the house has been subdivided into different apartments and most of...Read More
Police Administration
The building was reconstructed and adapted as The Great War veterans’ union...Read More
Womens Seminary of St. Hripsime
Женское среднее учебное заведение, названное в память великой просветительницы Армении, учредилось 2 января 1850 г., благодаря...Read More
Nikolaev Church
Following is a detailed history by Marietta Gasparyan in Russian of the Nikolaev church, which was demolished in 1931 during the reconstruction of the ‘Shahumian’ Square. Today, the monument to Stepan Shahumian (sculptor Sergei Merkurov)...Read More
‘Persian’ House in Kond
One of the very few red brick buildings from the era of the Persian Empire that still remain in the historic Kond district of Yerevan. This particular house neighbours the Kond mosque and could have been a residence of the mullah or part of the...Read More
‘Terlemezyan Art School’ Old building
The recently demolished late 19th century mansion used to serve from mid 1920s as the quarters of one of the first national art schools in Armenia – the Geghard texnikum and later the Terlemezian college of Fine Arts. The building was...Read More
Dexatan street 12
Դեղատան 12 հասցեում գտնվող այս տունը 19րդ դարի 80ականներին է կառուցված: Այն իր ճարտարապետությամբ այս ժամանակաշրջանի գուցե ամենափայլուն...Read More