THIS YEAR GTCHAVANK CHURCH WILL BE RESTORED

KarabakhOpen
28-03-2008 11:16:39

In 2008 the government allocated 106 million drams, 6 million more
money for the preservation and study of monuments in NKR, said the
head of the department of preservation and study of monuments of
the Ministry of Culture and Youth Slava Sargsyan in an interview
with Karabakh-Open.com.

The money is spent on restoration of monuments which are ruined.

Restoration of Gtchavank continues. This year, according to Slava
Sargsyan, the restoration of Gtchavank will finish, which stopped
last year due to problems with stones. The specimen of the stone
of the church was sent to Yerevan but it turned out that there is
no such stone in Armenia. Explorers found a rock of this stone 500 m
from the church. There is already a license for extracting stone, and
soon the restoration of the church will resume, Slava Sargsyan said.

This year the restoration of the fortress of Askeran, Amaras Monastery,
Dadivank, Ptkes bek Ulubab Monastery. "I should note that this year
we will create areas of preservation of monuments for the first time.

Presently, land is allotted without consulting us, and in some cases
historical monuments are located in those plots of land," said the head
of the department. Determination of preservation areas was hindered
by the lack of specialists. This year specialists from Armenia will
be invited.