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The Matenadaran (Armenian: Մատենադարան), officially the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, [a] is a museum, repository of manuscripts, and a research institute in Yerevan, Armenia.
The Armenian alphabet was a tool to greater unify Armenians living in the Byzantine Empire and the Sasanian Empire, giving a Christian identity to the Armenian people. [26] The alphabet was the key to the survival of the Armenian culture and identity, providing the cohesive forces in society with a standard around which to rally. [27] In time ...
The Armenian Apostolic Church celebrated the 1500th anniversary of the Armenian alphabet in 1912–13 [143] and the 1600th anniversary of the birth of Mashtots in 1961. [ 119 ] In May 1962 the 1600th anniversary of the birth of Mashtots was marked with "massive official celebrations" in Soviet Armenia , which had a "powerful impact on Armenian ...
Work started on Armenian Estates more than two years ago, but the development has come into sharper focus this summer. Two imposing homes and a pool house stand on the 20-acre lot, which is marked ...
There used to be five homes, originally owned by some of the city’s first Armenian immigrants, but two were destroyed in a June 2020 fire widely believed to be arson.
Aparan Alphabet park and the statue of the 12th-century Armenian scholar Mkhitar Gosh. The 33-meters high Holy Cross of Aparan and the Holy Trinity Altar of Hope consecrated in October 2012. The cross is a metallic structure consisted of a number of small metallic crosses, referring to the number of years since Armenia adopted Christianity in 301.
A 1962 statue of Mashtots (seated) and Koriun (kneeling) by Ghukas Chubaryan in front of the Matenadaran in Yerevan. Koriun (Old Armenian: Կորիւն; [a] also transliterated as Koriwn, Koryun, Coriun) was a fifth-century Armenian author and translator. He was the youngest student of Mesrop Mashtots, the inventor of the Armenian alphabet.
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