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The Museum "Treasures of Echmiadzin" is situated in the southeast section of the Echmiadzin Cathedral, the mother church of the Armenian Apostolic Church, located in the city of Vagharshapat. Unique holy relics and religious art are now housed in the museum. Among the many treasures are: the Holy Lance (Geghard) which pierced the side of Christ, housed in a silver reliquary; the relics of Noah's Ark in a reliquary that was created in 1698 and other valuable pieces of art. In addition to the pieces displayed, during archaeological excavations which were conducted due to renovation work of the Holy Altar, remnants of the original Holy Altar, founded by St. Gregory the Illuminator, dating back to 301-303 AD, were discovered.

Collection of Echmiadzin museums consists of the subjects of Christian culture created during the period from IX to the XX century in the regions of Ararat, Vayots-dzor, Erzruma, Van, Constantinople. The collection of Echmiadzin treasures was formed for a long time. In it there are rescued subjects, and also gifts and the donations brought during different historical eras

St. George Slaying the Dragon altar curtain 1799The tradition of using altar curtains in the Armenian Church is almost as ancient as the church itself.

wooden panel, the 9th-10th century Amenaprekich (All Savior) of Havuts Tsar represents Christ's descent from the cross

The forearm of the Apostle St. Thaddeus, one of the First Enlighteners of the Armenian Church, a most important spiritual relic

Altar curtains also became an important element of Armenian Christian art. This curtain is part of a set of four altar draperies made for the Cathedral of Holy Echmiadzin in 1791. It was imported from Madras, India—a city famous for its printed cloth in this period—where the curtain was likely completed by Indian artisans under the supervision of the local Armenian community.

Yellow curtain 1761

Chalice, XVIII c

Chalice, XVIII c

Censer, XVIII c

Alex & Mary ManukyanDonation

In 1982 Alex and Marie Manoogian donated funds for the construction of a museum in their name, the Treasury House Museum, on the grounds of the Mother See of

Holy Etchmiadzin in Armenia

Interior view of Alex and Marie Manoogian Treasury Museum

Urn for chrism, 1883, Aghtamar

Russian icon

Receptacles for myuron 1815

Reliquary of the Thorn of Christ

Incensory, XVIIc

Right Hand of John the Baptist Relic

Catholicos Gevork IV built this museum as an addition on the eastern side of the mother cathedral in order to have a secure place to store the most precious relics of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

Like all ancient churches, the Armenian Church renders great homage to sacred objects, relics of the saints, the Cross of our Lord, etc. While Armenians do not worship these items, nevertheless the faithful are encouraged to visit and to venerate them because of the sacred and sanctifying reality which exists behind them

Cross altar XVIII century, Silver, wood, coral, colored stones

Of great significance is the large silver

cauldron located in the south west

part of the museum, which

contains the holy muron or chrism, from which the

sacred oil is occasionally

drawn according to need

All-Armenian Catholicos Vazgen A is lighting the myuron in Holy Echmiadzin painted by Meruzhan Khachatryan (born 1980 in Yerevan, in a painter’s family)

Ceiling

Silver cauldron

Gold Khatchkar on marble, embellished with gems, 1978

Armenian Reliquary 1293 AD, Cilicia. – Hermitage Museum, Russia

Gold Khatchkar 1978

The icon of the Holy Martyrs of the Armenian Genocide (painted by Tigran Barkhanajyan on the occasion of the Canonization ceremony and under the high direction of the Catholicos of All Armenians) was consecrated on April 23, 2015 and will be kept at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin

Sound: Quta Der – an Armenian Requiem by Isabel Beyrakdarian and Yerevan Chamber Choir

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