Before experiencing the ARMENIA! Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art here in New York City last Fall, I had been in a prolonged season of feeling displaced, homeless. I had even traveled back to my hometown of Cleveland with …
St. Gregory of Narek (945-1003) is one the most revered saints of the Armenian Church. He has been widely influential due to his penitential flavor of prayerful expression, particularly through his renowned and deeply introspective Book of Prayers. He has …
What are icons, and how are they used in the Armenian Church? Simply stated, an icon is an artistic image, likeness, or representation of someone or some event. Often they are paintings depicting Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, saints, angels, …
For Armenians, going on pilgrimage to the Holy Land is hardly a novel tradition. From the first recorded Armenian pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the 4th century to the early 20th century, when Catholicos Khrimian Hayrig penned his Invitation to the …