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A journey to Vank in western Armenia
General view from the northwest, 1975 (Armenian architecture: a documented photo-archival collection on microfiche for the study of Armenian architecture of Transcaucasia and the Near- and Middle-East, from the medieval period onwards, by V. L. Parsegian, André Grabar, Armenian Educational Council (U.S.), RAA (Organization), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, v
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This is an amazing article. George, how can I contact you about speaking at a public library where I live in MA?
Please forward to every place on this earth ..to show what turks have done to Armenian churches…
Americans don’t know about the Armenian genocide…
Can you tell us how many churches in Western Armenia occupied by Turkey are in this situation…
I read once they demolished>2400 churches… monasteries…
I went here in 1990, its condition then was about the same as pictured here except more of the enclosure wall survived, including a doorway with its original door still intact (clad in metal sheeting and with a cross on it crudely made using two strips of the same sheeting). The site is marked “Venk” on the Erzincan region road map from the 1960s. The date 1856 is probably when the church was built.