HAYORDATS TUN OPENED IN ASHTARAK
Noyan Tapan
May 18 2006
ASHTARAK, MAY 18, NOYAN TAPAN. Hayordats Tun (Armenian-borns’ house)
acting under the patronage of the Armenian Apostolic Church was founded
in the city of Ashtarak, the marz center of Aragatsotn. This center
of religious, artistic and Armenian-type education of the younger
generation was founded on the initiative of Archimandarite Torgom
Tonikian, the primate of the Aragatsont diocese who is the spiritual
instructor of the Yerevan Hayordats school as well.
Pupils attending the Hayordats school, studying the centuries-old
history of the Armenian Church, at the same time become skilled
at different branches of art, enjoy pleasure of contact with
beautiful. The city art school passed under management of the Mother
See of Holy Etchmiadzin for the Hayordats school of Ashtarak. Programs
of fundamental restoration of the new educational institution are in
process at present.