Ankara restores Armenian church

Originally posted by karajoz we could use the money in better ways (no offense to armenian people) but, I would use the stones of the church as a wall between  turkey and armenia!

     Akhtamar's cathedral wouldn't be sufficient for a wall. You would have to dismantle all the buildings in Turkey created by Armenians. The mosques, hospitals and factories, schools and churches, numerous palaces and royal residences, including the mausoleums of three sultans of the Ottoman Empire.

State have no religion,  people have.  A church is not less important than a mosque.

Originally posted by traveler    In Turkey for more than 1000 years, people of different ethnic origins, different religious beliefs have lived together in peace.Please go and see really how people live in the cities where muslims,christians and jews live together.Churches,mosques and synagogues close to each other. And people do not have any anmosity... But unfortunately some a very few pawns remind me the famous saying that goes as             BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS...

Edited by Akolouthos - 09-Apr-2007 at 10:20

Originally posted by ArmenianSurvival Originally posted by karajoz we could use the money in better ways (no offense to armenian people) but, I would use the stones of the church as a wall between  turkey and armenia!      Akhtamar's cathedral wouldn't be sufficient for a wall. You would have to dismantle all the buildings in Turkey created by Armenians. The mosques, hospitals and factories, schools and churches, numerous palaces and royal residences, including the mausoleums of three sultans of the Ottoman Empire.

Edited by arch.buff - 12-Apr-2007 at 22:08

Originally posted by ArmenianSurvival Originally posted by arch.buff As for the Holy Cross, its beautiful. Its a type of latter Byzantine architecture.      I've always wondered why people describe Armenian churches as being influenced by Byzantine architecture. I see similarities between them, but the Armenians were building their churches in this style well before Rome split (the church of Etchmiadzin completed in 303 is a good example of this, and it was completed before Rome even accepted Christianity). I would like to hear your opinion on that.

"Although the church as undergone numerous transformations it still retains the form of the 5th century structure. It has a cruciform plan with a central cupola, four free-standing piers, and four projecting apses which are semicircular on the interior and polygonal on the exterior. The central piers, cruciform in section, divide the interior space into nine equal square compartments. The plan, except for the cupola, dates to the construction under taken by Vahan Mamikonean in the 480's. A similar plan can be found at the 7th century church at Bagaran (A-2177)."

Edited by arch.buff - 17-Apr-2007 at 23:09