SAMVEL KARAPETYAN: TWO MONASTERIES IN LORI TURNED INTO TOWER OF PISA

PanARMENIAN.Net
15.02.2010 19:04 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Research on Armenian Architecture (RAA) Organisation
on behalf of the Armenian Ministry of Culture launched a program
in 2009 to identify 26 architectural monuments of Armenia being in
the worst condition. The program will help to restore them, " Samvel
Karapetyan , an architectural historian and head of RAA told a press
conference on February 15 in Yerevan.

According to him, some of the studied monasteries are simply in a
poor condition. "Two monasteries in the Lori region "Bartsrakash"
and "Karasnits mankants" almost turned into a leaning tower of Pisa,
lurching from the very foundation. These walls have to be disassembled
and reassembled, which is undesirable, but in this case necessary,
" Samvel Karapetyan said. The cost of the project amounted to AMD 8
million, AMD 3.9 million were received by RAA.