ANOTHER CHURCH RE-CONSECRATED IN JAVAKHK

AKHALKALAK, AUGUST 1, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The ceremony of
re-consecrating of the Surb Haroutiun Church took place on July 29
in the Pokr Samsar village of the region of Akhalkalak. The church
was built in 1891 and functioned till establishing Soviet orders
in Javakhk. In autumn, 2006, on the initiative of Husik Abgarian,
a businessman from Pokr Samsar living in Russia, the church was
fundamentally re-constructed, a khachkar (cross stone) was placed
in the yard of the church. According to the "A-Info" agency, the
church was consecrated by Babken Salbiyan, locum tenens of
Samtskhe-Javakhk of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Representatives of
the regional administration and of the Armenian public organizations
of Samtske-Javakhk were present at the ceremony.