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Saint Stepanos hosts 2,500 foreign travelers in H1

Tehran Times, Iran
November 13, 2017 Monday
Saint Stepanos hosts 2,500 foreign travelers in H1
 
 
TEHRAN – Some 2,500 foreign tourists visited the UNESCO-inscribed Saint Stepanos Monastery in northwest Iran during the first half of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21, 2017).
 
Some 2,500 entry tickets for the monastery have been sold to foreign nationals during the period, Mehdi Abbasi, a tourism official, told IRNA on Sunday.
 
Located about 15 km northwest of the city of Julfa in East Azarbaijan province, the monastery together with St. Thaddeus and the Chapel of Dzordzor have been inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage list as “The Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran”.
 
They are examples of outstanding universal value of the Armenian architectural and decorative traditions yet bear testimony to very important interchanges with other regional cultures, the Byzantine, Orthodox and Persian, in particular.
 
PHOTO: A view of Saint Stepanos Monastery in northwest Iran
Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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