Skip to content- Aghtamar · Place ChristianityArtsHistory The island in Lake Van with the Church of the Holy Cross, built between 915 and 921 for King Gagik I Artsruni of Vaspurakan and famous for its stone reliefs.
- Amaras · Place ChristianityHistoryArts Monastery in the Martuni region of Artsakh, founded by tradition by Gregory the Illuminator and linked to the first Armenian school.
- Ani · Place HistoryArtsChristianity The medieval capital of the Bagratid kingdom of Armenia, a walled city on the Akhuryan River, now an archaeological site in Turkey on a World Heritage List.
- Etchmiadzin · Institution ChristianityArtsHistory The mother cathedral of the Armenian Church and the seat of the Catholicos of All Armenians, built in Vagharshapat in 301 to 303.
- Holy Apostles Monastery · Place ChristianityHistoryArts The monastery of Arakelots near Mush in Taron, a major center of medieval Armenian learning and writing, said to have been founded by Gregory the Illuminator in 312 and destroyed in 1915.
- Khaz notation · Concept ArtsChristianity The system of signs, called khazes, in which medieval Armenian church music was written; its meaning was lost by the modern era and is only partly recovered.
- Komitas · Person ArtsChristianityDiaspora Armenian priest, composer and musicologist, born in 1869 in Kütahya, who collected thousands of folk songs and was arrested in 1915 and died in Paris in 1935.
- Sayat-Nova · Person LiteratureArts Armenian ashugh, or minstrel, of eighteenth-century Tiflis, a weaver and court singer known for his love songs, who was killed by Persian invaders in 1795.
- Trdat the Architect · Person ArtsHistory The Armenian architect of the late tenth century who built the cathedral of Ani and rebuilt the dome of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople after the earthquake of 988.
- Vagharshapat · Place ChristianityHistoryArts Town west of Yerevan, the site of the cathedral of Etchmiadzin and the center of the Armenian Church.