A Survivor from Geneve
A thread I started in the Virtual Ani forum, that deals with the survived Jugha (Djulfa) khachkars, will have a new addition now. The idea of gathering the survived khachkars doesn’t belong to me, but to Steven Sim, a Scot architect and the last person to see Djulfa before its December 2005 annihilation.
I have just received a photo of one of the few (between 9 and 15) surviving khachkars from Jugha. This particular one is in Geneva (Geneve):
The St Hagop church in Geneva has been inaugurated in 1969 and I reckon the khatchkar monument has been erected on this occasion. I settled down in Geneva on 1972 and the khatchkar already existed at that time. If I am not mistaken, it had been brought from Nor Jugha/Djulfa, Iran (and not from [Old] Jugha)… You will find attached a scanned picture of the khatchkar taken in 1994.
Hrag Vartanian on 12 Feb 2007 at 9:21 am #
That’s a beautiful idea, resurrect the destroyed. Aivazian has a book with some of those stones. It would be great to know where to find other pics.
VirtualAni on 18 Feb 2007 at 1:56 am #
Not “resurect the destroyed” but to gather together photographically (if it is not possible physically) all the surviving examples in order to show just what has been destroyed.