Topic: cultural destruction

YEREVAN (Azatutyun) — Azerbaijan’s government-controlled Islamic religious body confirmed and defended on Monday the destruction of Nagorno-Karabakh’s largest Armenian cathedral and another church located in Stepanakert. It claimed[...]

YEREVAN — Recently, the Armenian Mirror-Spectator reported that Stepanakert’s St. Hakob Church was razed. Karabakh Armenians, upon learning of this, immediately began to express concern that the Holy Mother of[...]

YEREVAN — Every morning I watched from my window as Ter Minas walked down to the St. Hakob Church, which was built in 2005 in Nagorno-Karabakh’s capital city of Stepanakert.[...]

By Arshaluys Barseghyan Former Nagorno-Karabakh officials have warned that Amaras Monastery, home to the oldest Armenian school in Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as nearly 100 other historical and cultural monuments, are[...]

By Simon Maghakyan That is why the recent U.S. government publication of restricted cultural property imports originating in Turkey, at the latter’s request, has caused mixed reactions, including outrage. While[...]

By Bishop Hovakim Manukyan LONDON – Recently, the Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah published an article in which it calls Turkey a “land of diversity” thanks to the six featured churches[...]