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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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 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;...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(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...

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

is located in the town of Vagharshapat (Etchmiadzin) within the complex of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Armenia. In May 1869 Catholicos Gevorg...

elect a Catholicos in Etchmiadzin, the original seat of the Catholicosate. In 1441, a new Catholicos was elected in Etchmiadzin in the person of Kirakos...

March 2011. "Alex and Marie Manoogian Interred in Holy Etchmiadzin", Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin Information Services, 17 July 2007 "Azerbaijan cultural...

Yerevan, October 1972. Architectural Commission of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin (1970–1988). First row from left: Varazdat Harutyunyan, Vazgen I, K....