Curved corridor with round windows inside the maquette.

Heritage: Samvel Hakobyan

Zvartnots: the ambulatory

Material
Tufa

Curved corridor with round windows inside the maquette.

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.

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