Printing Office :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Printing Office 1874 — 1876 yy․

RA (Republic of Armenia) / Armavir / Echmiatzin

Historical Introduction

Printing-Office of St. Gayane Monastery, Vagharshapat (1874 to 1876). This small establishment was founded in 1874 by Senior Archimandrite Vahan Bastamiants, who published the “Dprots” (“School”) pedagogical journal there for two years under his own editorship. He writes the following in a report on his work: “I founded a printing-office in this monastery and published the “Dprots” journal there for two years. During that period, I maintained a small school, but later my long-lasting absence made me sell the printing-house, terminate the [publication of] the journal and close the school.”

Ուղեւոր Ա., Ուղեւորութիւն, «Սիօն», 1877, էջ 185: Also see Սմբատյանց Ա., Սուրբ Էջմիածնի միաբանության գրական-կրթական գործունեությունը և Մայր Աթոռի տպարանը, Ս. Էջմիածին, 1973, էջ 115: Senior Archimandrite Vahan Bastamiants (1842, Tiflis - 1881, Vagharshapat) was a publicist, pedagogue and ecclesiastical figure. Բաստամյանց Վ., Նամակ Վաղարշապատից, «Մշակ», 1879, N 63, էջ 1-2: Abrahamian Emma, Printing-Houses Throughout the Armenian Homeland, in: "Vardzk", 2012, N 6, p. 4.