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In the center of the circle, at a depth of 1.5 meters, there is an eternal flame dedicated to the 1.5 million people killed during the Armenian genocide. [ 8 ] Along the park at the memorial there is a 100-meter wall with the names of towns and villages where massacres and deportations are known to have taken place.
Tsitsernakaberd is the official memorial to the Armenian genocide victims in Yerevan, Armenia. It was opened in 1967 after a mass demonstration that took place in Yerevan on April 24, 1965, on the 50th anniversary of the deportation of hundreds of Armenian intellectuals from Constantinople that marked the beginning of the genocide.
The Genocide memorial and museum. History Museum of Armenia (1920) [2] Yerevan History Museum (1931) [3] Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (1967) [4] Erebuni Museum (1968) [5] Mother Armenia Military Museum (1970) Museum of Police History of Armenia (1977) ARF History Museum (2007) Central Bank Museum and history of money (2011)
There is an Armenian genocide memorial in Yerevan that is located on a hill to the west overlooking the city called Tsitsernakapert. Its construction started in 1966 after 1 million Armenians demonstrated in Yerevan on the 50th anniversary of the genocide. The construction of the monument was completed in 1968.
Armenian Genocide Memorial Argentina: Buenos Aires: 1983 Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex: Syria: Der Zor: 1990-2014 Armenian Genocide Monument: Cyprus: Nicosia: 1990 Armenian Genocide memorial Syria Cathedral of the Forty Martyrs, Aleppo: 28 May 1991 Armenian Genocide memorial Belgium: Ixelles: 1995 Armenian Genocide Monument on Mt. Davidson ...
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenian: Մեծ Եղեռնի զոհերի հիշատակի օր Mets Yegherrni zoheri hishataki or) or Armenian Genocide Memorial Day [5] is a public holiday in Armenia and is observed by the Armenian diaspora on 24 April. [5] [6] It is held annually to commemorate the victims of the Armenian genocide of 1915.
Yerevan is home to a large number of museums, art galleries and libraries. The most prominent of these are the National Gallery of Armenia, the History Museum of Armenia, the Cafesjian Museum of Art, the Matenadaran library of ancient manuscripts, and the Armenian Genocide Museum at the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex.
The building of this memorial to the fallen of the genocide was the first step in honoring important events and figures in Armenia's long history. Monuments honoring the Armenian victories in Sardarapat and Bash Abaran against the Ottoman Turks in 1918, among others, were later built one after the other.