HARVARD UNIVERSITY CENTER FEATURES ARMENIAN EXHIBITION

ARMENPRESS
Nov 7, 2007

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS: An exhibition featuring the cultural
legacy of the Armenian town Nor Jugha (New Jugha) is on display at
Management and International Relations Center of Harvard University,
USA.

The exhibition displays photos taken by a prominent Armenian researcher
of Nakhichevan Argam Ayvazian and Steven Sim, a U.S. architect. The
majority of photos show architectural monuments of the region erected
between 10-th-17-th centuries.

The focus is on how these monuments looked in the past and now,
evidencing how Azerbaijan destroyed Armenian churches and cemeteries
with unique cross stones.

Steven Sim has made numerous trips across historical Armenia over the
last two decades taking pictures of all endangered Armenian monuments.

In 2005 he traveled to Nakhichevan to examine the Armenian churches
there, but found none. Steven Sim was the last non-Armenian who
witnessed destruction of the Armenian cemetery in Nakhichevan before
it was actually razed to ground in 2005.

He testified this to a European Parliament member, as a result
it passed a resolution condemning the destruction of the Armenian
cemetery.

The exhibition will be on display until November 19.