On a snowy prairie in Minnesota stands a monastery like no other. A concrete trapezoid banner encasing a bell tower looms ...

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This week the 7 Most Endangered Programme, a civil society campaign to save Europe’s endangered heritage, announced its list of endangered sites. Among those was ...

Among those was Arakelots Monastery and Settlement in Tavush. Hidden within the forests of the Tavush region in northern Armenia, the Arakelots Monastery and Settlement is a gem of medieval heritage.

Arakelots Monastery and Settlement in Armenia has been named among the 14 most endangered sites in Europa. The 14 monuments and heritage sites in Europe shortlisted for this year’s edition of the 7 ...

The 13th century Arakelots Monastery and Settlement in Armenia’s northern Tavush Province is one of the fourteen European monuments and heritage sites shortlisted for this year’s edition of the 7 Most ...

Others, like the Hanging Temple in China and Sumela Monastery in Turkey, virtually hover in midair, carefully balanced on the faces of steep, rocky cliffs. From the Buddhist traditions of Asia to ...

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has provoked a storm of criticism from his political opponents and historians after questioning the 1915 Armenian Genocide and the decades-long Armenian campaign for ...

“We are financially quite stable, but monks are at the heart of a monastery – they are what gives a monastery meaning and without them it loses its meaning,” he says. The Cistercians voted ...

These extraordinary ruins were once the monastery of Bardzrakash St Grigor, a site that, as ever in Armenia, marries ancient Christianity with impenetrable mystery. Its origins are associated with ...

Decline in the number of Russian tourists in December was offset by growth of tourist visits from India, Iran and China The number of foreign tourists visiting Armenia in 2024 December dropped ...