COURT-YARD CAMP OF AKHALKALAK SURB KHACH CHURCH CLOSES
Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Aug 23 2006
AKHALKALAK, AUGUST 23, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The closing
ceremony of the court-yard camp having functioned for about one month
took place in the territory adjacent to the Akhalkalak Surb Khach
(Saint Cross) church.
According to the "A-Info" agency, about 170 children from Akhalkalak,
of 7-15 years old, participated in the camp. According to words of
Liana Khloyan, the court-yard head, the director of the Yerevan
"Puprik" children’s and juvenile theater-studio, the camp is
directed to historic-cultural and spiritual education. The camp
detachment leaders were representatives of the youth union of the
Ararat Patriarchal Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church. To recap,
pupils of one of Armenian Sunday schools of New York sponsored the
camp. The "Javakhk Call" fund and the Akhalkalak Mayor’s Office also
assisted the camp.