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  • Another Church Re-Consecrated in Javakhk

    ANOTHER CHURCH RE-CONSECRATED IN JAVAKHK

    AKHALKALAK, AUGUST 1, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The ceremony of
    re-consecrating of the Surb Haroutiun Church took place on July 29
    in the Pokr Samsar village of the region of Akhalkalak. The church
    was built in 1891 and functioned till establishing Soviet orders
    in Javakhk. In autumn, 2006, on the initiative of Husik Abgarian,
    a businessman from Pokr Samsar living in Russia, the church was
    fundamentally re-constructed, a khachkar (cross stone) was placed
    in the yard of the church. According to the "A-Info" agency, the
    church was consecrated by Babken Salbiyan, locum tenens of
    Samtskhe-Javakhk of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Representatives of
    the regional administration and of the Armenian public organizations
    of Samtske-Javakhk were present at the ceremony.
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