Surb Khach Monastery to become Crimean ethnographic museum department?
28.11.2009 17:51 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Starting December 1, 2009, Surb Khach Monastery will
be registered as Crimean ethnographic museum department,
Analitika.at.ua reported, citing the head of the National Security and
Defense Committee of Ukraine’s Supreme Rada, Anatoliy Hrytsenko.
Armenian clergymen hope for Ukrainian Eparchy of the Armenian
Apostolic Church not to be deprived of Surb Khach Monastery.
Surb Khach Monastery, a medieval Armenian monastery located on the
Crimean peninsula, has for centuries been an Armenian spiritual center
and a place of pilgrimage.