SOS SARGSYAN: MOSCOW CINEMA OPEN-AIR HALL NOT APPROPRIATE PLACE FOR CHURCH
PanARMENIAN.Net
02.04.2010 12:06 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Old Yerevan was famous for its churches before
they were ruined during the sovietization, USSR People’s Artist Sos
Sargsyan said.
"Any church helps create completeness of a city atmosphere. However,
I think Moscow cinema open-air hall is not an appropriate place for a
church. Churches are not constructed in such closeness, particularly
by Armenians," he told a PanARMENIAN.Net correspondent.
The Armenian government complied with the offer of Moscow Cinema LLC
on an unpaid alienation of the land-plot located at 18 Abovyan St. of
Yerevan and occupied by Moscow cinema open-air hall to the benefit
of Holy See of St. Etchmiadzin with property rights for construction
of a new church similar to St. Poghos-Petros Church, which had stood
there before it was ruined by the soviet regime.
Sos Sargsyan is USSR People’s Artist (1985), laureate of the Armenian
SSR state prize (1975 – for the role of Mkrtych in Triangle film, 1967;
1979 – for theatrical work; 1988 – for participation in Matenadaran
TV-film.) He is a laureate of the USSR cinema festival in Prizes for
Best Performance nomination in 1986. He was a presidential candidate of
the ARF Dashnaktsutyun in 1991. Sos Sargsyan was born on October 24,
1929, in Stepanavan, Armenia. He is a graduate of Yerevan Institute
of Fine Arts and Theatre (1954). From 1954 he performed at Sundukyan
Academic Theatre and started acting in films in 1959. He is the
founder and head of Hamazgain Theatre.