INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE DEVOTED TO 1600TH ANNIVERSARY OF OPENING OF FIRST
SCHOOL IN ARTSAKH TO BE HELD IN NKR IN 2005
STEPANAKERT, December 6 (Noyan Tapan). A scientific conference
devoted to the 1600th anniversary of the opening of the first school
in Artsakh will be held in Nagorno Karabakh in 2005. According to
Hamlet Grigorian, the Rector of the Artsakh State University, the
conference will be held in the second half of May. The scientists
of a number of countries expressed wish to participate in it. The
conference will held in Stepanakert, Shushi and in the territory of
the ancient Amaras temple, where the first school was opened. According
to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the NKR, Amaras temple occupies
special place in a number of historical monuments of Artsakh-Karabakh
as the spread of Christianity in the Armenian Communities of Artsakh
is connected with it. Centuries later this temple became one of the
famous centers of the spiritual and cultural life of Artsakh. It
is well known that Mesrop Mashtots began the first teaching of the
Armenian written language in the territory of Eastern Armenia, in
Amaras, and the first school was established there.