ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia
August 7, 2017 Monday


Turkish authorities make another encroachment on the Armenian Church

Yerevan August 07

Tatevik Shahunyan. From the stones of Armenian church of Varaghavank
in the Turkish province of Van (the territory of Western Armenia) a
new mosque, houses and other structures are being built. This was
reported to the local media by the head of the Union for the
Protection of Cultural Monuments of Van Ali Kalchek.

Currently, Armenian church is studying the Qur'an for local children,
the Turkish edition of Yeniozgurpolitika reports. The Armenian church
of Varagavank was built in the 7th-8th centuries AD. The temple was
badly damaged during the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Later the efforts of
the Turkish Armenians restored the church.