Kond
Hillside quarter of clay-and-stone houses stacked wall to wall, patched by hand for four centuries.
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This guide to Kond in Yerevan starts with a steel pot jammed into a gap in a stone wall, a patch on a house that has stood for some four hundred years without engineers, only residents improvising with whatever was on hand. It traces the quarter's founding in the 1600s, the 1679 earthquake that brought down the Melik Aghamalyan family's home and a neighboring mosque, and architect Alexander Tamanyan's wish to preserve Kond as a living museum even as he leveled much of the rest of the city. Look for the balcony built from the body of an old van as you walk the narrow lanes.
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