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Armenian Church Bazaar Season: What It Funds an...
A bazaar looks like a food fair. For many Armenian parishes, it is the fundraiser that keeps the church running. Here is who cooks, where the money goes, and how...
Armenian Church Bazaar Season: What It Funds an...
A bazaar looks like a food fair. For many Armenian parishes, it is the fundraiser that keeps the church running. Here is who cooks, where the money goes, and how...
Trchnakir: The Armenian Bird Letters, Explained
Letters drawn as birds have opened Armenian Gospel books for centuries. What trchnakir is, what it sits beside, and why it is still taught today.
Trchnakir: The Armenian Bird Letters, Explained
Letters drawn as birds have opened Armenian Gospel books for centuries. What trchnakir is, what it sits beside, and why it is still taught today.
How to Write Your Name in Armenian Letters
Hakob or Hagop? The same name can be written two ways in Armenian, and both can be right. Here is how to choose the spelling before it goes on a...
How to Write Your Name in Armenian Letters
Hakob or Hagop? The same name can be written two ways in Armenian, and both can be right. Here is how to choose the spelling before it goes on a...
What Is a Khachkar? The Armenian Cross-Stone Be...
Khachkars are the carved cross-stones of Armenia. Here's what they are, what they're for, and how I brought the form into my collection as woven wall tapestries.
What Is a Khachkar? The Armenian Cross-Stone Be...
Khachkars are the carved cross-stones of Armenia. Here's what they are, what they're for, and how I brought the form into my collection as woven wall tapestries.
Holy Translators Day: How Mesrop Mashtots and S...
Why Armenians observe an entire feast day for two fifth-century translators, and what it has to do with the alphabet you still write in today.
Holy Translators Day: How Mesrop Mashtots and S...
Why Armenians observe an entire feast day for two fifth-century translators, and what it has to do with the alphabet you still write in today.
Hey Jan Ghapama: The Armenian Song About a Pumpkin
An Armenian folk song about dinner. What the refrain actually means, why Daron Malakian sang it in Republic Square, and how the dish became a fall design.
Hey Jan Ghapama: The Armenian Song About a Pumpkin
An Armenian folk song about dinner. What the refrain actually means, why Daron Malakian sang it in Republic Square, and how the dish became a fall design.