In 2005 in Beijing law on reconstruction of the Holy Cross Church situated on Akhtamar Island in Turkey was adopted. According to the law Armenian restorers and architects must also take part in ...

The only way to get to Akhtamar Church is by boat. Visitors have to climb up a steep pathway to reach the church's low entrance, where on a recent visit, chanting echoed from inside the building.

Akhtamar Church on Lake Van (Courtesy Photo) March 29, 2007 -- A 10th-century Armenian church is scheduled to reopen today in Turkey after extensive restoration work.

The 10th-century church of the Holy Cross on Akhtamar Island in Lake Van saw its first religious service in nearly a century less than two weeks ago.

For 45-year-old Yerevan nurse Armine Navasardian, what matters is not why Holy Cross was reconstructed, but that the church, a central part of Armenia’s heritage, has been preserved. “The Turkish ...

On September 26, Sunday, just a week after the September 19 Mass, Armenians were not allowed to say the “Lords Prayer” inside the Akhtamar Church of the Holy Cross “. The whole island and the Church ...

Built between 915 and 921 A.D., the Akhtamar church is one of the few surviving examples of the ancient Armenian civilization in what is now eastern Turkey. Hundreds of Armenian churches built there ...

Surb Khach Church is ready for Sunday Mass. According to the Turkish website Haberler, the Governor of Van Münir Karaloglu, who made an inspection visit by helicopter on Sept. 18 to the island of ...

Ateshyan demanded that the Turkish authorities allow to write “St. Cross” name on the church and place on the dome the cross donated by Patriarch Mesrob B. “It is our most natural right. The cross ...

The political action organized by the opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) followed the reported restoration of a cross atop another medieval Armenian church located in eastern Turkey. The 10th ...