{"id":7730,"date":"2024-06-25T10:57:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T10:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/satitour.am\/?post_type=product&#038;p=7730"},"modified":"2026-06-20T19:52:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T19:52:52","slug":"private-one-day-city-tour-echmiatsin-mother-cathedral-st-hripsime-church-st-gayane-church-zvartnotc-temple","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/satitour.am\/hy\/tour\/private-one-day-city-tour-echmiatsin-mother-cathedral-st-hripsime-church-st-gayane-church-zvartnotc-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Private One Day City Tour, Echmiatsin Mother Cathedral, St. Hripsime church, St. Gayane church, Zvartnotc temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Price starting from 60$\/ Per pers for min. 2 pax.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Overview:<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Yerevan city.<\/strong>\u00a0Providing an excellent introduction to the history of the city. tour of Yerevan exploring various layers of its history \u2013 medieval shrines hidden behind imposing Soviet-style fa\u00e7ades, narrow streets of the old center with sunlight playing on its pink walls, Closed Market and Blue Mosque on Mashtots Avenue, Republic Square, Cascade and Mother Armenia, Opera House and ambitious projects of independent Armenia \u2013 North Avenue and spacious Grigor Lusavorich (St. Gregory the Illuminator) Cathedral consecrated by His Holiness the Patriarch of all Armenians in the presence of His Holiness Pope John Paul ll.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Echmiatsin\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0The original church was built in the early fourth century<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>between 301 and 303 according to tradition\u2014by Armenia&#8217;s patron saint\u00a0Gregory the Illuminator, following the adoption of Christianity as a state religion by King\u00a0Tiridates III. 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