Tag Archive: Colonial architecture
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