naming. The city is best known as the location of Etchmiadzin Cathedral and Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, the center of the Armenian Apostolic Church. It...

Etchmiadzin Cathedral (Armenian: Էջմիածնի մայր տաճար, romanized: Ēǰmiaçni mayr tač̣ar) is the mother church of the Armenian Apostolic Church, located...

Etchmiadzin or Ejmiatsin may refer to: Vagharshapat, Armenia, a city in Armenia also known as Etchmiadzin (or Ejmiatsin, Echmiatsin or Echmiadzin) Etchmiadzin...

44°17′28″E / 40.1620°N 44.2912°E / 40.1620; 44.2912 Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin (Armenian: Մայր Աթոռ Սուրբ Էջմիածին, romanized: Mayr At’oř Surb Ēĵmiatsin)...

pioneers of ethnomusicology. Orphaned at a young age, Komitas was taken to Etchmiadzin, Armenia's religious center, where he received education at the Gevorgian...

40°09′32″N 44°17′27″E / 40.15889°N 44.29083°E / 40.15889; 44.29083 Etchmiadzin Stadium (Armenian: Էջմիածին Մարզադաշտ), is an abandoned football stadium...

Etchmiadzin Journal of Religious and Armenological Studies (Armenian: «Էջմիածին» կրօնագիտական և հայագիտական ամսագիր, Ejmiatsin kronagitakan yev hayagitakan...

administrative headquarters of the Armenian Church, is the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, located in the city of Vagharshapat. The Armenian Apostolic Church is...

king's help he did so in accordance with his vision, renaming the city Etchmiadzin, which means "the place of the descent of the Only-Begotten". Initially...

The Etchmiadzin uezd was a county (uezd) of the Erivan Governorate of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. The uezd bordered the Alexandropol...

The Etchmiadzin Paper Factory was built in 1775 by Catholicos Simeon I of Yerevan in Etchmiadzin. The factory operated for approximately six years, but...

Armenian Apostolic Church comprising the autocephalous Catholicosate of Etchmiadzin in Armenia and the Catholicosate of Cilicia in the Levant and of diaspora;...

մեծ Սուրբը [The Great Saint of Oshakan]". Etchmiadzin (in Armenian). 13 (6). Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin: 12–14. Jinivizian, Kevork (1962). "Օշականի...

the nationalized collection of the Armenian Church, formerly held at Etchmiadzin. Its collection has gradually expanded since its establishment, mostly...

Religions in West Asia Pilgrims in the annual Hajj at the Kaaba in Mecca. Etchmiadzin Cathedral, first cathedral in the world, the mother church of all Armenians...

baptism. Having attended the Gevorgyan Seminary of Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, he received the ordination of deacon in 1993 from Bishop Anania Arabajyan...

Gregory the Illuminator) was seated in Sis 267-301 before moving to Etchmiadzin in 301 where he continued in office until 325. In 485 AD, the Catholicosate...

Republic of Armenia by Martiros Sarian]". Etchmiadzin (in Armenian). 65 (5). Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin: 118–119. "Советская Армения (Soviet Armenia)"...

capital is the town of Armavir while the largest city is Vagharshapat (Etchmiadzin). The province shares a 72 km (45 mi)-long border with Turkey to the...

the tomb of the prophet in Hittin Christian Armenians praying at the Etchmiadzin Cathedral in Vagharshapat Muslim men praying at the Ortaköy Mosque in...

Number Place Years 1 Etchmiadzin Cathedral, Vagharshapat (Etchmiadzin) 301–484/485 2 Dvin 484/485–927 3 Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Aghtamar Island 927–947...

the Yerevan Project Institute and the Armenian Church headquarters in Etchmiadzin. He died on November 19, 2001, in Yerevan. Arzoumanian is the architect...

seventh century Armenian Apostolic church in the city of Vagharshapat (Etchmiadzin), Armenia. It is one of the oldest surviving churches in the country...

expansion of the Ottoman Empire. Armenian Architecture: Interior of Etchmiadzin Cathedral, the first cathedral in the world, founded 303 year AD. Byzantine...

(1981). Armenia: Past and Present. Lucerne: Reich Verlag. OCLC 8063377. Etchmiadzin, with the world's oldest cathedral and the seat of the Catholicos, draws...

A reliquary displaying a piece of wood at the museum of Etchmiadzin Cathedral in Armenia, said to be from Noah's Ark. By tradition Jacob of Nisibis received...

German naturalist Friedrich Parrot of the University of Dorpat arrived at Etchmiadzin in mid-September 1829, almost two years after the Russian capture of...

Khoren I died in mysterious circumstances at the Pontifical Residence in Etchmiadzin. The Armenian Church and most historians believe he was murdered by the...

temples, and imitated some aspects of Armenian pre-Christian architecture. Etchmiadzin cathedral, 303 4th century Amaras Monastery near Sos Dvin, 4th century...

The Echmiadzin Gospels (Yerevan, Matenadaran, MS. 2374, formerly Etchmiadzin Ms. 229) is a 10th-century Armenian Gospel Book produced in 989 at the Monastery...