Armenia Photo Gallery

A picture of Ararat Mountain from the Armenian side.

Here is a picture of a church on a hilltop in Armenia. More than 93% of Chrisitans in Armenian are members of the Armenian Apostolic Church, a conservative and ritualistic form of Oriental Orthodoxy that similar to the Coptic and Syriac churches. The remaining Armenian Christians are Catholic and evangelical Protestants.

I am not sure what kind of church is in the picture.

Armenia became the first country in the world to adopt Christianity as its officially state religion. The Armenian Church, official name Armenian Apostolic Church, itself dates back to the first century AD when, according to tradition, it was founded by Thaddaeus and Bartholomew, two of Jesus' apostles who preached in Armenia.

Gerhard Monastery, or "Spear Monastery was built in the fourth century to house one of Jesus' spears - hence the name. It was rebuilt in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries after being destroyed by Arab invaders in the ninth century. It is currently listed as a UNESCO building.

This is a picture of a waterfall in Shushi, Armenia.