| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Matenadaran
|
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13th century illumination.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Matenadaran
|
 |
Copy of "On The Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres" by Copernicus.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Matenadaran
|
 |
Metal bound Bible from Khlat dated 1653.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Matenadaran
|
 |
Folk singers with musical instruments from the 14th century.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Matenadaran
|
 |
13th century drawn book.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Matenadaran
|
 |
1471 monastic Bible.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Matenadaran
|
 |
Detail of illumination.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Matenadaran
|
 |
The 13th century Persian poet, Saadi, published in 1841.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
|
 |
The 19th century Villa Delenda.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
|
 |
Seated woman.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
|
 |
Balconies in central Yerevan.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Martiros Saryan Museum
|
 |
Photograph of the painter Martiros Saryan (1880 - 1972) painting the composer Arum Khachaturian.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Martiros Saryan Museum
|
 |
The museum is in the artist's former home and studio.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Martiros Saryan Museum
|
 |
Detail of "Evening in the Garden" which was painted in 1903.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Martiros Saryan Museum
|
 |
"Egyptian Masks" (1915).
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Martiros Saryan Museum
|
 |
"In the Grove of the Sambek" (1909).
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Martiros Saryan Museum
|
 |
"Mount Ararat" from the 1920s series commemorating Armenia.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Martiros Saryan Museum
|
 |
Painting of the countryside near Mount Ararat (1925).
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Martiros Saryan Museum
|
 |
Portrait of botonist Nora Gabrielian, dated 1960.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Martiros Saryan Museum
|
 |
"The Church of Kamravor" is one of the artist's later paintings, dating from 1958.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Martiros Saryan Museum
|
 |
"Picking Potatoes in Asqabad" (1934).
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Martiros Saryan Museum
|
 |
Triple portrait of the artist's wife from 1935.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Martiros Saryan Museum
|
 |
"Arabian Dancer" by Armenian artist Martiros Saryan from his 1913 visit to Istanbul.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Martiros Saryan Museum
|
 |
Portrait of Katherine Saryan (1957).
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Martiros Saryan Museum
|
 |
Portrait of composer D Shostakovitch (1963).
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Martiros Saryan Museum
|
 |
Portrait of sculptor N Nikoghosian (1955).
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Martiros Saryan Museum
|
 |
Self portrait of the artist in his studio.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
|
 |
A row of shops.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
|
 |
Man sitting outside a shop.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Zorovar Church
|
 |
Detail of the Zorovar Church, hidden in a back street.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Zorovar Church
|
 |
The interior of the modern church.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Zorovar Church
|
 |
Woman handing out carnations at a wedding.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
|
 |
Street scene in the north of the city.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
|
 |
Mayr Hayastan is the 23m high statue of Mother Armenia.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Opera House
|
 |
The Opera House is one of the city's major landmarks.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Opera House
|
 |
The auditorium.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Opera House
|
 |
Chandeliers above the auditorium.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Opera House
|
 |
Performance of the Armenian opera, Anush.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
|
 |
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Republic Square.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
|
 |
A mixture of building styles.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
|
 |
Yeritasardakan metro station.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Folk Art Museum
|
 |
Carved wooden disk.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Folk Art Museum
|
 |
Detail of a hunting scene on a wooden disk.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Folk Art Museum
|
 |
Wooden carving of a group of musicians.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Folk Art Museum
|
 |
Lace work is a very typical folk craft in Armenia.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Folk Art Museum
|
 |
Detail of lacework table cover.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Folk Art Museum
|
 |
Lace dress collar.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Folk Art Museum
|
 |
Detail from a lace doily.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Folk Art Museum
|
 |
Metal plate engraved with Armenian church.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Folk Art Museum
|
 |
Decanter and cups for cognac.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Folk Art Museum
|
 |
Elaborately decorated metal tray.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Folk Art Museum
|
 |
Traditional costume.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Folk Art Museum
|
 |
Horse blanket.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Folk Art Museum
|
 |
Carpet weaving machine.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
|
 |
Carved cross ouside St Hovhannes Church.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
|
 |
View of Armenia's holy mountain, Ararat (5165m), now in Turkey.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
|
 |
Poster celebrating 1710 years of Armenian Christianity.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
|
 |
Carpenters at work.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Surp Grigor Lusaorich Cathedral
|
 |
The modern Surp Grigor Lusaorich Cathedral.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Surp Grigor Lusaorich Cathedral
|
 |
The interior of the cathedral.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Genocide Museum
|
 |
Memorial to the 1.5 million Armenians killed in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 during the creation of the modern Turkish state.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Genocide Museum
|
 |
Eternal flame to the victims of what has been called the 20th century's first holocaust.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Genocide Museum
|
 |
A map showing regions in modern Turkey where massacres and expulsions of Armenians ocurred.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Genocide Museum
|
 |
Photograph of a woman and her two children, three of the many who starved while being forced marched through the Syrian desert.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Genocide Museum
|
 |
Widows and orphans.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Genocide Museum
|
 |
A chart by region showing the effects of the genocide.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Genocide Museum
|
 |
One of many eye-witness accounts of the events of 1915.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Genocide Museum
|
 |
The book by Aurora Mardiganian, a survivor of the genocide whose story was made into a silent movie.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Genocide Museum
|
 |
Cartoon about the genocide.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Genocide Museum
|
 |
USA newspaper with an article on masscares of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Genocide Museum
|
 |
One of a series of paintings commissioned for the museum.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Erebuni Fortress
|
 |
The walls of Erebuni Fortress, the earliest settlement in Yerevan, founded as an Urartu outpost.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Erebuni Fortress
|
 |
Temple complex in the fortress.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Erebuni Fortress
|
 |
Urartu figure painted on the temple wall.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Erebuni Fortress
|
 |
Wheel shaped mural in the temple.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Erebuni Fortress
|
 |
One of the palace rooms.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Erebuni Fortress
|
 |
Door with metal image of the king, Argishti I.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Erebuni Fortress
|
 |
Helmet with zig zag pattern representing the god of war.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Erebuni Fortress
|
 |
Cuniform inscription dating from 782 BCE from the Urartu king, Argishti I.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Erebuni Fortress
|
 |
Pottery from Erebuni.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Arum Khachaturian Museum
|
 |
Woven portrait of Arum Khachaturian, Armenia's most famous composer.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Arum Khachaturian Museum
|
 |
Collection of recordings in the former home of Arum Khachaturian.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Arum Khachaturian Museum
|
 |
The composer's conducting suit. Posters for performances.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
Site / Event : Arum Khachaturian Museum
|
 |
Music score.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
District : Vernissage Market
|
 |
Metal items on sale in Yerevan's weekend "flea" market.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
District : Vernissage Market
|
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Woman with her laceware.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
District : Vernissage Market
|
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Carpet seller.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
District : Vernissage Market
|
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Clothes stall.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
District : Vernissage Market
|
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Two market traders.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
District : Vernissage Market
|
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Shoes made from crochet.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
District : Vernissage Market
|
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Backgammon sets.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
District : Vernissage Market
|
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Woman sewing.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
District : Vernissage Market
|
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Two men in the market.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
District : Vernissage Market
|
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Woman in the market.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
District : Vernissage Market
|
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Knitted dolls.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Yerevan
District : Vernissage Market
|
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Men playing backgammon.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Zvartnots
|
 |
Zvartnots Cathedral was built in 661 and destroyed by an earthquake in 930.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Zvartnots
|
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The Syrian style cathedral is circular.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Zvartnots
|
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Detail of a column.
|
2011 |
| Armenia |
City / Town : Zvartnots
|
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The Throne Room of the palace attached to the cathedral.
|
2011 |
were added from 1 February 2025.