32 Sights in Yerevan, Armenia (with Map and Images)
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Sightseeing Tours in Yerevan1. Cascade
The Cascade is a giant stairway made of limestone in Yerevan, Armenia. It links the downtown Kentron area of Yerevan with the Monument neighborhood. Designed by architects Jim Torosyan, Aslan Mkhitaryan, and Sargis Gurzadyan the construction of the cascade started in 1971 and was partially completed in 1980.
2. Yerevan History Museum
The Yerevan History Museum is the history museum of Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia. The museum was founded in 1931 as the Communal Museum. Currently, the museum is located in a building attached to the Yerevan City Hall. The architect of the building was Jim Torosyan.
3. Vernissage
Yerevan Vernissage is a large open-air market in Yerevan, Armenia. The name of the market is the derived from the French word vernissage. The market lies along Aram Street and Buzand Street at a length of 350 metres (1,150 ft), connecting the Hanrapetutyun street with the Khanjyan street. The market mainly features a collection of different types of traditional Armenian art works.
4. Torq Angegh
Tork Angegh is a deity of strength, courage, manufacturing and the arts in Armenian mythology. A creature of unnatural strength and power, Tork was considered one of the great-grandsons of Hayk, the legendary patriarch of the Armenian people. He was reportedly represented as an unattractive male figure. He is mentioned by the early Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi and is considered one of the significant deities of the Armenian pantheon prior to the time when it came under influence by Iranian and Hellenic religion and mythology. Taken in the context of Proto-Indo-European religions, it is conceivable that an etymological connection with Thor and Týr is more than a simple coincidence.
5. Circular Park
The Circular Park ; also known as the Youth Park, is a public park in the Kentron district of the Armenian capital Yerevan. It starts with the Cathedral of Saint Gregory at the south on Tigran Mets street, and ends up with the Poplavok lake at the north near Mashtots Avenue. The park lies along Khanjyan, Yervand Kochar, Alex Manoogian, Moskovian and Isahakyan streets, forming a half-circular shaped park around the eastern part of downtown Yerevan. The park has an approximate length of 2500 metres and an average width of 120 metres.
6. Սուրբ Հովհաննես եկեղեցի
St. John's Church, the humble Armenian Apostolic Church on the north-eastern side of the Avan community of Yerevan (Vd.). A cross is depicted on the entrance bar. Many patterned crosses carved on the walls of the church have been preserved. In the vicinity of the church, tombs, crucifixes and a medieval cemetery have been preserved. On the left side of the courtyard of the church, an inscribed masonry cross has been preserved.
7. Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral
The Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral, also known as the Yerevan Cathedral is the largest cathedral of the Armenian Apostolic Church. It is located in the Kentron District of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, and is one of the largest religious buildings in the South Caucasus along with the Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi. Adjacent to the General Andranik metro station, it is visible from many areas of Yerevan.
Wikipedia: Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral, Yerevan (EN)
8. Erebuni Fortress Museum
Erebuni Museum was established in 1968. The opening of the museum was timed to coincide with the 2750th anniversary of Yerevan. The Museum stands at the foot of the Arin Berd hill, on top of which the Urartian Fortress Erebouni has stood since 782 BCE. The city-fortress was excavated, some parts of the structure were reinforced and restored, and the fortress was turned into an outdoor museum.
9. Blue Mosque
The Blue Mosque is an 18th-century Shia mosque in Yerevan, Armenia. It was commissioned by Hoseyn Ali Khan, the khan of the Iranian Erivan Khanate. It is one of the oldest extant structures in central Yerevan and the most significant structure from the city's Iranian period. It was the largest of the eight mosques of Yerevan in the 19th century and is the only active mosque in Armenia today.
10. Johannes Lepsius
Johannes Lepsius was a German Protestant missionary, Orientalist, and humanist with a special interest in trying to prevent the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. He initially studied mathematics and philosophy in Munich and a PhD in 1880 with an already award-winning work. Lepsius was one of the founders and the first chairman of the German–Armenian Society.
11. Erebuni Fortress
Erebuni Fortress is an Urartian fortified city, located in Yerevan, Armenia. It is 1,017 metres (3,337 ft) above sea level. It was one of several fortresses built along the northern Urartian border and was one of the most important political, economic and cultural centers of the vast kingdom. The name Yerevan itself is derived from Erebuni.
12. Khachatur Abovyan statue
A monument to Khachatra Abovyan, located near Kh. Abovyan's home museum in the Kanaker district of Armenia, was installed on Abkhaz Street in 1933, and then moved several times. The current location was installed in September 1964. Included in the History and Cultural Monuments List of the administrative district of Canyon-Zaitun, Armenia.
Wikipedia: Խաչատուր Աբովյանի հուշարձան (Երևան, Քանաքեռ) (HY)
13. The Men
The Men is a public artwork in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. Created by Armenian sculptor Davit Minasyan in 2007, it commemorates Edmond Keosayan's 1972 film of the same name, and comprises four statues, depicting the film's stars, the actors Mher Mkrtchyan, Avetik Gevorkyan, Armen Ayvazyan, and Azat Sherents.
14. Կարեն Դեմիրճյան
Karen Demirchyan's bust, located in Yerevan's Nor Nork administrative district of Yerevan, in front of a school after Karen Demirchyan. The school was founded in 1968. In 2002 he was named after the National Hero of Armenia Karen Demirchyan. The monument was erected in 2003. The sculptor is Hamlet Matinyan.
15. The seller of water
"The Spray Boy" sculpture is located in Yerevan in the English Park, installed in 1970. It is included in the list of real monuments of the history and culture of the Kentron and Culture of Yerevan administrative district. One of the symbols of old Yerevan is dedicated to the former bouquet of boulevard.
16. Mordechai Navi Synagogue
Mordechai Navi Synagogue, is a Jewish synagogue in the Armenian capital Yerevan, and the centre of the Jewish community of the city. It is located on 23 Nar-Dos Street of the central Kentron district. It was opened in June 2011, with the financial assistance of the Armenian businessman David Galstyan.
17. Martiros Saryan monument
Martiros Saryan's monument, located in the center of Mashtots, Marshal Baghramyan Avenue and Mashtots Saryan, not far from the street after the Great Artist, in 1986. It is included in the list of real monuments of the history and culture of the Kentron and Culture of Yerevan administrative district.
18. Aleksandr Myasnikyan Monument
[[]] Alexander Myasnikyan's monument, located in Yerevan, was posted in 1980, in honor of Armenian party, political, public figure Alexander Myasnikyan. It is included in the list of real monuments of the history and culture of the Kentron and Culture of Yerevan administrative district.
19. Komitas statue
Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas, was an Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster, who is considered the founder of the Armenian national school of music. He is recognized as one of the pioneers of ethnomusicology.
20. Cafesjian Sculpture Garden
The Cafesjian Center for the Arts is an art museum in Yerevan, Armenia. It is located at the central Kentron District, in and around the Yerevan Cascade which is a complex of massive staircase with fountains, ascending up from the Tamanyan Street gardens and pedestrian zone.
21. Գաբրիել Սունդուկյան
Gabriel Sundukyan's monument, located in the British Park (Kommyig), in front of the Gabriel Sundukyan Academic Theater, was posted in 1972. It is included in the list of real monuments of the history and culture of the Kentron and Culture of Yerevan administrative district.
22. Nelson Stepanyan
Nelson Stepanyan's bust, is located in the center of Movses Khorenatsi, Grigor Lusavorich, Beirut and Zakyan streets, was posted in 1950. It is included in the list of real monuments of the history and culture of the Kentron and Culture of Yerevan administrative district.
23. Ղազարոս Աղայան
Ghazaros Aghayan's bust, located in Yerevan's Arabkir community, in front of school No. 63 after Ghazaros Aghayan. The monument was erected in 1955. It is included in the list of real monuments of the history and culture of the Arabkir administrative district of Yerevan.
24. Yeghishe Charents Monument
Yeghishe Charents' monument, located in the center of Yerevan, in the ranged park, in front of the radio station, was posted in 1985. It is included in the list of real monuments of the history and culture of the Kentron and Culture of Yerevan administrative district.
25. Avetik Isahakyan
A monument to the Gospel of Isaac, It is located in the heart of Yerevan, adjacent to the Moscow, Isaac, and Abkhaz streets, just outside the Youth Station in 1965. Included in the History and Cultural Monuments List of the Central Administrative Region of Armenia.
26. Khachatur Abovyan monument
Khachatur Abovyan's monument, located in the center of Yerevan, at the end of Abovyan Street, in Abovyan Park, installed in 1950. It is included in the list of real monuments of the history and culture of the Kentron and Culture of Yerevan administrative district.
Wikipedia: Խաչատուր Աբովյանի հուշարձան (Երևան, Աբովյան պուրակ) (HY)
27. Vardan Mamikonyan statue
Vardan Mamikonyan's monument is located in Yerevan, near Vardanants and Khanjyan streets, posted in 1975. It is included in the list of real monuments of the history and culture of the Kentron and Culture of Yerevan administrative district.
28. Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov's bust is located in the Kentron community of Yerevan, in front of the school No. 55. It is included in the list of real monuments of the history and culture of the Kentron and Culture of Yerevan administrative district.
29. Andrey Sakharov monument
Andrey Sakharov's monument, located in the center of Yerevan, in Sakharov Square, posted in 2001. It is included in the list of real monuments of the history and culture of the Kentron and Culture of Yerevan administrative district.
30. Matenadaran of Yerevan
The Matenadaran, officially the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, is a museum, repository of manuscripts, and a research institute in Yerevan, Armenia. It is the world's largest repository of Armenian manuscripts.
31. Holy Vartanants Martyrs Church
St. Vartanants Martyrs Church is the Armenian Apostolic Church in the Malatia-Sebastia District of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. It is located on the Yerablur hill, right of the Yerevan-Echmiadzin highway.
32. David of Sasun
Sasuntsi Davit is a copper equestrian statue depicting David of Sassoun in Yerevan, Armenia. Erected by Yervand Kochar in 1959, it depicts the protagonist of the Armenian national epic Daredevils of Sassoun.
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