Saint Gregory the Illuminator Church, Yerevan
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Saint Gregory the Illuminator Church ( hy, Սուրբ Գրիգոր Լուսավորիչ եկեղեցի, ''Surb Grigor Lusavorich yekeghets'i'') was an Armenian Apostolic church in
Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and i ...
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, that was destroyed in 1939. It was where Yeghishe Charents School is now on Amiryan Street, Yerevan.


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Saint Paul and Peter Church, Yerevan Saint Paul and Peter Church ( hy, Սուրբ Պողոս-Պետրոս Եկեղեցի; ''Surp Poghos-Petros yekeghetsi'') was an Armenian Apostolic church in Yerevan, Armenia originally built during the 5th-6th centuries. It was demolished in Nov ...
* Gethsemane Chapel *
History of Yerevan The history of modern Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, traces its roots back to Erebuni Fortress an ancient Urartian fortified monument from which also the modern city of Yerevan derives its name. The earliest reference to Yerevan in the medieval ...


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