Yerevan: Medieval Churches and Mosques. Walking Tour｜Armenia

Meet your guide and set off on a walking tour of Yerevan’s medieval and modern churches and mosques. Discover the sites where similar buildings once stood but were destroyed in the 1920s and 1930s.

Visit the Church of the Holy Virgin (Katoghike) and St. Anne. Learn about the destruction of a 17th-century monastery and the discovery of a 13th-century church. See the construction of the Institute of Linguistics and an unseen piece of medieval architecture.

Head to Zoravor Church, hidden within a late-Soviet courtyard, and see the tomb of St. Ananias. Visit the Church of St. Sarkis and hear how the church was restored in the 1970s.

Next, visit the Blue Mosque, the only restored Shiite mosque from the Persian era. See the Kond Mosque, a partially preserved mosque still inhabited.

Finally, see the Opera and Ballet Theater building on the site of the late medieval Getseman Chapel. Visit Aznavour Square, where the Church of St. Peter and Paul and the Zal Khan Mosque once stood.