ARTIST FROM VAN ORGANIZES EXHIBITION DURING ST KHACH LITURGY
news.am
Sept 5 2011
Armenia
VAN. - An artist from Van Haydar Ekinek will organize an exhibition
on September 11 on the day of liturgy at St Khach Church in Aghtamar.
The exhibition will have the name "Breath of brotherhood and peace
in the lands when I was born," Turkish IHA agency reports. Over
16 pictures will be exhibited and the invitations are published in
Turkish, English, Armenian and Kurdish. The artist used the soil of
Aghtamar in his works.
Aghtamar St Khach Church will hold a liturgy on September 11 devoted
to the church celebration. The church held for the first time the
liturgy in 2010, 95 years after the Genocide. Only Constantinople
Armenian Patriarchate of the Armenian Apostolic Church participated
in the liturgy, the Holy See of St Echmiadzin, the Patriarchate of
Jerusalem and the Great House of Cilicia reasoned their absence by
not having set up the cross on the church.
However, the cross was set up 10 days after the liturgy on September
30 and was anointed by the spiritual leader of Constantinople Armenian
Patriarchate Tatul Anushyan.
news.am
Sept 5 2011
Armenia
VAN. - An artist from Van Haydar Ekinek will organize an exhibition
on September 11 on the day of liturgy at St Khach Church in Aghtamar.
The exhibition will have the name "Breath of brotherhood and peace
in the lands when I was born," Turkish IHA agency reports. Over
16 pictures will be exhibited and the invitations are published in
Turkish, English, Armenian and Kurdish. The artist used the soil of
Aghtamar in his works.
Aghtamar St Khach Church will hold a liturgy on September 11 devoted
to the church celebration. The church held for the first time the
liturgy in 2010, 95 years after the Genocide. Only Constantinople
Armenian Patriarchate of the Armenian Apostolic Church participated
in the liturgy, the Holy See of St Echmiadzin, the Patriarchate of
Jerusalem and the Great House of Cilicia reasoned their absence by
not having set up the cross on the church.
However, the cross was set up 10 days after the liturgy on September
30 and was anointed by the spiritual leader of Constantinople Armenian
Patriarchate Tatul Anushyan.