Armenia rejects Azerbaijani accusations of attempts to erase alleged Albanian trace from Armenian monuments
The Armenian Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport officially denied the publications of a number of Azerbaijani media about attempts to erase the alleged quot;Albanian tracequot; from Armenian cultural and historical monuments. br /
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YEREVAN, 20 June. /ARKA/. The Armenian Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport officially denied the publications of a number of Azerbaijani media about attempts to erase the alleged Albanian trace from Armenian cultural and historical monuments.br
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Azerbaijan claimed that the strengthening, repair and restoration of Armenian cultural monuments located in the area of the delimited border (and not only there) are aimed at eliminating the so-called Albanian traces.nbsp;nbsp;
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Such information is a blatant lie and another manifestation of Azerbaijan's manipulative policy of falsifying historical facts, the press service of the Armenian Ministry of Education says.nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;
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In particular, the church of Kirants village in Tavush region of Armenia was built in the XIX century from local rough-hewn stone and is a voluminous Armenian temple-basilica.
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On the upper part of the south window of the sacristy there is an inscription with the year of construction (1888), and on the right side there is an inscription in Armenian.
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During Soviet times the church was turned into a warehouse. In 2024, the monument will be strengthened, repaired and restored with funds allocated by the Government of the Republic of Armenia, and scientific and design documentation will be drawn up for the placement of a rotunda bell tower.nbsp;nbsp;
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The church with a central dome of Surb Astavatsatsatsin in the village of Voskepar in Tavush region was built in the 7th century according to the canons of Armenian early medieval church architecture (St. Hovhannes Mastari, St. Grigor Arichavank, St. Gevorg Artika, Karsi Arakelots). It was extensively renovated in 1975-1977, but the roof and other structures were damaged due to rains. They will be restored with public funds.
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The early Christian Yereruyk temple in Armenia's Shirak region, which has also been in the crosshairs of Azerbaijani information propaganda presented allegedly as a Turkic monument, is inscribed on UNESCO's Tentative List of World Cultural Heritage and EuropaNostra's List of Cultural Monuments as endangered.
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The strengthening and restoration programme of Yereruyk Temple is implemented within the framework of cooperation between the Ministry of Education and the US Embassy in Armenia, with financial support from the US Ambassador's Cultural Property Preservation Fund.
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The Armenian Ministry of Education called on the relevant circles in Azerbaijan to stop distorting historical facts and to ensure the preservation of Armenian cultural and historical monuments in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) under Azerbaijani control, in particular by ensuring visits of international observation missions to monitor the condition of Armenian monuments located on the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.-0-
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