Temple Mount

Saint Hripsime Church, built in the year 618, and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. According to legend, the pious virgin Hripsime was bequeathed to the Holy Mother of God, and to go to the land of Ararat -. Armenia. Virgin reached the mountain Varaga and St. Hripsime lifted from the neck holy wooden cross -. A piece of the Cross of the Lord, and to bury the relic in the Armenian land. This relic of the miracle was found in the seventh century. Subsequently, it was here that the Church of St. vozdvodyatsya. Hripsime, St. Gayane and St. Shoghakat.