The Armenian Church
and Bible

The Armenian presbytery [in Gheorgieni, Romania] had a magnificent library. Shelves and shelves of buckram spines ran up the walls. The whole place was a reliquary for the Armenians' most holy remains: thousands of pages of St Mesrop's script. The word as prop, collected by generations of priests; the word as code, carried in calfskin saddle-bags from one Armenian quarter to the next; the word as thick as blood, binding the strands of the diaspora.
(Marsden 1995, p. 145)

The text on Armenian Church and the canon of its Bible is being written. Until then, you can read articles on Armenian religion and church on Hye Etch web site.

... or take a tour of
Armenian monasteries
in Armeniapedia.

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Bibliography

Marsden, P. (1995). The crossing place: A journey among the Armenians. New York, Tokyo, London: Kodansha International.

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