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Young writers demand termination of construction of restaurant near
Kecharis monastery complex
tert.am
10:43 - 28.05.12
The participants of the 10th conference of young writers released a
statement demanding that the construction of a restaurant complex near
the Kecharis monastery complex be stopped.
The statement addressed to Catholicos of All Armenians, prime
minister, minister of culture, Kotayk governor and Tsakhkadzor mayor
came after the group visited the site and was disappointed to hear the
Armenian restaurant music coming from the partially built complex.
The young writers believe the construction of a restaurant complex
will noticeably devalue the historic significance of the cultural
monument and may have negative impact on the general spiritual and
moral environment of the territory.
`We demand the construction be stopped and expect consistency from the
bodies responsible for it,' the statement says.
Kecharis is a 11-13th-century monastery, located 60 km from Yerevan,
in the ski resort town of Tsakhkadzor in Armenia. Nestled in the
Bambak mountains, Kecharis was founded by a Pahlavuni prince in the
11th century, and construction continued until the middle of the 13th
century. The main temple, the church of Saint Gregory, is the
monastery's first structure erected by Grigor Magistros Pahlavuni in
1003. The interior of the temple is divided into three spaces by two
pairs of wall-attached abutments. The central (and largest) space of
the church is crowned by a broad cupola resting on spherical
pendentives. The cupola and pendentives were destroyed by an
earthquake in 1927, and reconstructed in 2000.
Kecharis monastery complex
tert.am
10:43 - 28.05.12
The participants of the 10th conference of young writers released a
statement demanding that the construction of a restaurant complex near
the Kecharis monastery complex be stopped.
The statement addressed to Catholicos of All Armenians, prime
minister, minister of culture, Kotayk governor and Tsakhkadzor mayor
came after the group visited the site and was disappointed to hear the
Armenian restaurant music coming from the partially built complex.
The young writers believe the construction of a restaurant complex
will noticeably devalue the historic significance of the cultural
monument and may have negative impact on the general spiritual and
moral environment of the territory.
`We demand the construction be stopped and expect consistency from the
bodies responsible for it,' the statement says.
Kecharis is a 11-13th-century monastery, located 60 km from Yerevan,
in the ski resort town of Tsakhkadzor in Armenia. Nestled in the
Bambak mountains, Kecharis was founded by a Pahlavuni prince in the
11th century, and construction continued until the middle of the 13th
century. The main temple, the church of Saint Gregory, is the
monastery's first structure erected by Grigor Magistros Pahlavuni in
1003. The interior of the temple is divided into three spaces by two
pairs of wall-attached abutments. The central (and largest) space of
the church is crowned by a broad cupola resting on spherical
pendentives. The cupola and pendentives were destroyed by an
earthquake in 1927, and reconstructed in 2000.