Barsegh Hovhannissian Meghviniants Funerary Memorial

Barsegh Hovhannissian Meghviniants Funerary Memorial 1894 y․

Georgia / Tiflis

Description
1894 y․

In 1894 mineralogist Barsegh Hovhannissian Meghviniants, the Vice-Consul of Belgium in Tiflis, was buried in the cemetery. The memorial perpetuating his memory stands at the northern extremity of the main graveyard of the church, close to its ramparts (in recent years, it has been deliberately damaged).

“Тифлисский листок”, 1895, N 1, 02.01. Karapetian Samvel, Documents of Armenian Architecture. Book 1: Sourb Nshan Sourb Nikoghayos Church, Tbilisi. Yerevan, 2012, p. 31.

Inscription, Armenian, Engraved, Commemoration 1843 — 1894 yy․

Karapetian Samvel, Documents of Armenian Architecture. Book 1: Sourb Nshan Sourb Nikoghayos Church, Tbilisi. Yerevan, 2012, p. 31.

Type Photo
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Source Colour Negative

Type Photo
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Author Samvel Karapetyan
Source Black-and-white negative
Date 1989 y․

Type Photo
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Author Sargis Darchinian
Source Colour Negative
Date 2008 y․

As already subjected to premeditated destruction