The Armenian Church
Domed Armenian Apostolic cathedral modelled on Etchmiadzin, with a diocesan museum and rare-book library.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Armenian Church in Bucharest starts with a single old book kept in the house next door and asks who paid for it to be there. It follows Armenian merchant money on this ground from a Constantinople benefactor in the eighteenth century to the church raised between nineteen eleven and nineteen fifteen on the model of Etchmiadzin. Stand in the courtyard where you can see both the church and the Dudian house.
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