GEORGIAN AMBASSADOR TO RA PROMISES TO REBUILD RUINED ARMENIAN CHURCH IN TBILISI

PanARMENIAN.Net
24.11.2009 17:18 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Georgian Ambassador to Armenia Georgy Targamadze
promised that the Armenian churches in Tbilisi will be restored and
that they will have legal status. After that, the Armenian churches in
Georgia will be passed under jurisdiction of the Armenian Apostolic
Church, Narek Mantashyan, chairman of the Student Council at the
Yerevan State Economic University said after a meeting with George
Targamadze.

According to him, Georgia’s Ambassador Georgy Targamadze informed
that churches are destructed due to earthquakes, often occurring in
Tbilisi within last months.

Surb Gevorg (Saint Gevorg) Armenian church, built in the Georgian
capital in 1356 collapsed last Friday. Armenian Apostolic Church
accused Georgian authorities of indifference to preservation of
Armenian shrines, resulted in the destruction of the church.