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"RECORDS OF ALEPPO" BOOK PRESENTED TODAY
Friday 17 January 2014 14:30
Photo: PanArmenian Photo
"Records of Aleppo" book presented today
Yerevan /Mediamax/. Foundation studying Armenian architecture presented
"Records of Aleppo" book today.
Member of the foundation, the author of the idea of the book Raffi
Kortoshyan said that the book features photos of gravestones of the
Armenian graveyard in Aleppo and the records on them.
Besides, the book depicts the history of local Armenian churches and
information on the Armenians living there.
President of the foundation studying Armenian architecture Samvel
Karapetyan added that the inscriptions on the gravestones of the
Armenian graveyards in Aleppo indicate that the local Armenians
migrated from the Western Armenia to escape persecutions.
"The gravestones may serve as a dictionary of Western Armenian
toponyms and they are direct evidences of the Armenian Genocide",
said Samvel Karapetyan.
"Records of Aleppo" book was published in 700 copies, it is available
in Yerevan bookstores.
http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/society/8754/
From: A. Papazian
Friday 17 January 2014 14:30
Photo: PanArmenian Photo
"Records of Aleppo" book presented today
Yerevan /Mediamax/. Foundation studying Armenian architecture presented
"Records of Aleppo" book today.
Member of the foundation, the author of the idea of the book Raffi
Kortoshyan said that the book features photos of gravestones of the
Armenian graveyard in Aleppo and the records on them.
Besides, the book depicts the history of local Armenian churches and
information on the Armenians living there.
President of the foundation studying Armenian architecture Samvel
Karapetyan added that the inscriptions on the gravestones of the
Armenian graveyards in Aleppo indicate that the local Armenians
migrated from the Western Armenia to escape persecutions.
"The gravestones may serve as a dictionary of Western Armenian
toponyms and they are direct evidences of the Armenian Genocide",
said Samvel Karapetyan.
"Records of Aleppo" book was published in 700 copies, it is available
in Yerevan bookstores.
http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/society/8754/
From: A. Papazian