Sat Gayane Church (Vagharshapat) - TurPravda

Contents:

• SAT GAYANE CHURCH
• STS. HRIPSIME, GAYANE, AND THE CHRISTIAN MAINS
• ST. GAYANE CHURCH
• ST. GAYANE CHURCH

SAT GAYANE CHURCH

Gayane ChurchSat Gayane Church is one of the Armenian signs of wealth. The church was named after Gayane, who was among St Hripsime’s panns.

In 2000, along wh other historil church of Vagharshapat, Sat Gayane Church was listed the UNESCO World Herage S.

STS. HRIPSIME, GAYANE, AND THE CHRISTIAN MAINS

The Story of St Hripsime and St Gayane. Gayane ChurchThe Roman Emperor Dcletian wanted to marry one more time and he sent his people to check every part of his empire and brg to him the most betiful girl.

The abbs of the monastery was Gayane, Hripsime’s preceptor.

Knowg the sire of the Emperor, Gayane, Hripsime and around 70 nuns and scholars left the St Poghos Monastery at night and went to Egypt, Alexandria. Gayane ChurchSt Grigor Lavorich (301-325). The patriarch dividually buried the bodi of St Hripsime and St Gayane different ffs bi other nuns.

ST. GAYANE CHURCH

So, wh the help of Grigor Lvorich’s efforts, three chapels were built: one was the northeastern part of the cy where Hripsime died wh her 32 iends, the send one the southern part where Gayane died wh her two iends, and the third one the garn, where nuns were livg. Instead of the stroyed chapel of St Gayane, he tablish a wi thedral 630. St Gayane Church is 100 metr far om Ejmiats, southwt part.

ST. GAYANE CHURCH

About St Gayane Church’s nstctn, Hovhann Draskhanakertsi wrote, that Yezr Patriarch tablished a simple and wi thedral.

So, stead of the Martyriums of St Gayane and St Hripsime two patriarchs tablished magnificent thedrals, where, till now, every visor enters wh a great admiratn. The Murals of St Gayane Cathedral. Gayane ChurchThe murals of St Gayane Cathedral have an athetic and cultural high value.

In ntrast to the mother Cathedral, St Gayane’s murals date go back to 1688.