Armenian Churches (24 postcards)

Armenian Churches (24 postcards)24 postcards with the drawings of Levon Lachikyan provide a general impression on successive phases of the Armenian church art development. It is noteworthy, that due to the fine and highly exquisite performance, the well-known monuments acquired a new sonority, engulfing the observer with spiritual-sensual mood. Each scenic postcard besides having an artistic importance, also provides laconic descriptions on the reverse. For many centuries, the architecture was the paramount sphere of the Armenian culture. From the III millennium B.C. and on, when the Armenian highland was completely under the umbrella of one cultural unit, robust traditions gradually commenced to form. The national image and identity of the Armenian architecture, however, was formed in the early IVc., when in 301, Armenia was the first to adopt Christianity as a state religion. According to the ancient Armenian historians, Gregory the Illuminator and King Tiridates III built the first