[custom_adv] Saint Sarkis Cathedral is an Armenian Apostolic church in Capital completed in 1970 and named after Saint Sarkis the Warrior. It is the cathedral of the Armenian Diocese, one of three Armenian dioceses, whose prelate is archbishop Sepuh Sargsyan. [custom_adv] Saint Sarkis Cathedral, which is the largest church, has a length of 36.5 meters and a width of 17.8 meters. It is a single-nave church built out of concrete whose exterior and interior walls as well as the floor are covered with white marble. [custom_adv] It was originally built without interior columns with the hexagonal dome borne just by its walls, but when the danger of the dome falling down was seen, four bearing columns were added. [custom_adv] The church has a gallery for the choir from which hymns are performed. The church has two belfries with domes on top, one on each side of the entrance hall on the western side. The bells are pulled by electric power. [custom_adv] As in other Armenian churches, the half-circle altar is on the eastern side of the building. On both sides of the altar there are vestries with side entrances. [custom_adv] Since the completion of Holy Mother of God Church in central in 1945, prelacy was located in the premises of that church. In the early 1960s it was decided to change the site of the prelacy offices into new location. [custom_adv] So therefore the bishop and committee members of the time asked Markar Sarkisian, an Armenian benefactor, to help them in this cause. Since Markar passed away soon, his sons Gurgen and Vasgen Sarkisian financed the church project in memory of their parents. [custom_adv] The committee bought land located at the end of Villa Street (now called Nejatollahi Street). The construction of St. Sarkis Church began in 1964 and was completed in 1970. The church was renovated in 2000. [custom_adv] In the courtyard there is an Armenian Genocide memorial made of white marble. It is 3.50 meters high, and on its pedestal there are inscriptions in Persian and Armenian as well as the date 24 April 1915. The monument was unveiled on 24 April 1973, on the fifty-eighth anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. [custom_adv] Saint Sarkis Cathedral is an Armenian Apostolic church in Capital completed in 1970 and named after Saint Sarkis the Warrior. It is the cathedral of the Armenian Diocese, one of three Armenian dioceses, whose prelate is archbishop Sepuh Sargsyan. [custom_adv] Saint Sarkis Cathedral, which is the largest church, has a length of 36.5 meters and a width of 17.8 meters. It is a single-nave church built out of concrete whose exterior and interior walls as well as the floor are covered with white marble.
