Echmiadzin Cathedral (Armenia) - description, history, location. Exact address and website. Tourist reviews, videos. Echmiadzin (Vagharshapat), a quiet and comfortable town with a rich historical past, is located 30 km west of Yerevan, in the vast Ararat valley, the largest hearth of Christian cultu…
St. Hripsime Church (Armenia) - description, history, location. Exact address and website. Tourist reviews, photos and videos. The temple of Surb Hripsime, built in the 7th century, stands at the entrance to the city of Vagharshapat and is part of the Echmiadzin monastery. Here rest the relics of Sa…
Zvartnots Temple (Armenia) - description, history, location. Exact address and website. Tourist reviews, photos and videos. In the early 20th century a group of researchers discovered the ruins of an ancient temple, buried up to the roof under a layer of earth and sand. Having excavated the structur…