Surp Hovhannes

Material

Gold-plated silver

Gilded maquette of Surp Hovhannes church, three-quarter view.

Samvel Hakobyan, People's Master of Armenia, has spent more than forty years building maquettes of Armenian churches. There are more than thirty: some carved in tufa, the same volcanic stone as the churches; others in silver and gold, with obsidian, agate, onyx and mother of pearl.

Work by Samvel Hakobyan