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  • Afrikyans Club's Facade Demolished

    AFRIKYANS CLUB'S FACADE DEMOLISHED

    by Ashot Safaryan

    Wednesday, July 2, 12:24

    The facade of the ancient building of Afrikyans Club in the center
    of Yerevan has been completely demolished, Wednesday.

    Actually, the last weeks' public protests against demolition of the
    building proved useless. The remaining part of the building will be
    demolished soon.

    The Afrikyan building, located on 11 Teryan Street, was built at the
    end of the 19th century. Based on a Government decision in 2004, the
    building was included in the state list of historical and cultural
    immovable monuments of the city of Yerevan as a national monument.

    According to a new Government decision the Afrikyan building will
    be dismantled and rebuilt at another location in order to broaden
    the roadway. The building is included in the "Old Yerevan" program,
    which will be designed and implemented in the neighboring streets of
    Abovyan, Byuzand, Koghbatsi and Aram.

    The activists reported earlier that the Armenian Parliament ratified
    the European Convention on the Protection of the Archaeological
    Heritage. According to the Convention, each of the parties shall ban
    the full or partial relocation of the protected monument except when
    this step is made for the protection of the monument.

    In early XX century, before the revolution, the Afrikyans' building
    was an urban club visited by well- known politicians, entrepreneurs,
    artists and foreign guests. In 2004 the building was sold to a private
    company by the Municipality. Industrialists Arakel and Tigran Afrikyan
    allocated big funds for schools and for road construction. Moreover,
    they built a water pipeline in Yerevan, which supplied the residents
    of Yerevan with drinking water.

    http://www.arminfo.am/index.cfm?objectid=55AF6A00-01C2-11E4-87A90EB7C0D21663

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