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Restored churches in Western Armenia no longer have Armenian architecture
11:05, 17 November, 2012
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 17, ARMENPRESS: Armenian monasteries and churches
that are located in the northern region of Artsakh, on Azerbaijan
borders, have the same fate as Armenian churches and monuments in
Nakhichevan, which means have been ruined. As specialist on monuments
Samvel Karapetyan noted in the interview with Armenpress losing
Armenian historical territories we are paying with our culture. `Those
who have no idea of Armenian historical monuments and churches in
Azerbaijan are carrying out an activity, restoring and renovating
their appearance. If a person who has no experience in renovation and
reconstruction of churches and monuments doesn't want to cooperate
with skilled professionals based on some political intolerance and
discrimination so automatically the result cannot be good from the
scientific aspect and cannot correspond to restoration norms'
Karapetyan noted.
According to Samvel Karapetyan the situation of historical monuments
in Western Armenia is now different, in case 50 60 years ago during
the Soviet Union Armenian monuments were being destroyed now vice
versa. Therefore everything doesn't run so smooth. For example, in
2007 Armenian Church was being reconstructed, but the roof was
completely changed. The authorities didn't deny that the church was
Armenian, but in a result of some mistakes now it doesn't have
Armenian architecture. He also assured that Armenian specialists would
restore the churches for free in case of being invited. Karapetyan
also highlighted that there were some cases when the renovation of the
churches was intentionally left unfinished.
From: Baghdasarian
11:05, 17 November, 2012
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 17, ARMENPRESS: Armenian monasteries and churches
that are located in the northern region of Artsakh, on Azerbaijan
borders, have the same fate as Armenian churches and monuments in
Nakhichevan, which means have been ruined. As specialist on monuments
Samvel Karapetyan noted in the interview with Armenpress losing
Armenian historical territories we are paying with our culture. `Those
who have no idea of Armenian historical monuments and churches in
Azerbaijan are carrying out an activity, restoring and renovating
their appearance. If a person who has no experience in renovation and
reconstruction of churches and monuments doesn't want to cooperate
with skilled professionals based on some political intolerance and
discrimination so automatically the result cannot be good from the
scientific aspect and cannot correspond to restoration norms'
Karapetyan noted.
According to Samvel Karapetyan the situation of historical monuments
in Western Armenia is now different, in case 50 60 years ago during
the Soviet Union Armenian monuments were being destroyed now vice
versa. Therefore everything doesn't run so smooth. For example, in
2007 Armenian Church was being reconstructed, but the roof was
completely changed. The authorities didn't deny that the church was
Armenian, but in a result of some mistakes now it doesn't have
Armenian architecture. He also assured that Armenian specialists would
restore the churches for free in case of being invited. Karapetyan
also highlighted that there were some cases when the renovation of the
churches was intentionally left unfinished.
From: Baghdasarian