The Dadivank Monastery (pictured above) is one of scores of Christian sites recaptured by Azerbaijan during the 2020 war with ethnic Armenian forces over Nagorno-Karabakh.

Armenia: Art, Religion, and Trade in Middle Ages.Metropolitan Museum of Art, through January 13, 2019. T he Metropolitan Museum of Art is less a museum than a university—it’s also a big, messy place, ...

Review: Exploring the First Christian Nation An exhibition at the Met is filled with objects that make it clear that, for their creators, the celebration of beauty was also a religious act. By ...

Tradition indicates that Armenia became the world’s first Christian nation in AD 301. ... But Christina Maranci, an Armenian professor of art and architecture at Harvard University, ...

The Armenian Heritage Foundation of Philadelphia, a group created to oversee the project, announced the walkway in March. Last November, the city’s art commission issued a final approval on the ...

Armenia was founded as a Christian country in 301 by St. Gregory the Illuminator and King Tiridates III (whom St. Gregory helped to convert). But after years of Soviet rule, its Christian identity ...

Armenia is one of the oldest Christian countries in the world, and yet, surprisingly, little is known about the Eurasian state and its fascinating, rich Christian heritage. To help uncover some of ...

Artiom Chernamorian, an Armenian-Israeli former journalist told RFE/RL that the planned “return” of the art form to Armenia will be something at once foreign and indigenous.

An original Djulfa khachkar, one of a dozen survivors removed from Nakhichevan during or before the Soviet era, displayed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Armenia! exhibit (September 22, 2018 ...

An already ancient kingdom accepted Christianity around 301, making it probably the world’s oldest Christian state (Ethiopia challenges that title). The Bible was translated into Armenian before the ...