Diaspora’s philanthropists express readiness to restore dome of Shushi’s Ghazanchetsots Cathedral

14:41, 8 November, 2020

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 8, ARMENPRESS. Artsakh’s ministry of education, science and culture has received many phone calls from the philanthropists of the Diaspora who expressed their readiness to restore the dome of the Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in Shushi and other cultural centers damaged from the Azerbaijani attacks, Minister of education, science and culture Lusine Gharakhanyan said at a press conference in Armenpress.

“Cultural homes have been destroyed in Artsakh. Shushi’s cultural center suffered the heaviest destruction. I have received many calls from our Diaspora partners, philanthropists who expressed their readiness to restore the cultural enters, as well as the dome of the Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in Shushi. And this gives hope. We will do that, I have no doubt”, she said.

The Artsakh minister assured that all planned programs will be implemented. They had plans to open an engineering technological park in Togh village of Hadrut.

On October 8 Azerbaijan carried out two strikes on the Ghazanchetsots Cathedral, causing damage to the complex.

Reporting by Anna Grigoryan; Editing and Translating by Aneta Harutyunyan

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