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Saint Hripsime Church of Yalta

Yalta, Russia · built 1905

Saint Hripsime Church (Surp Hripsime Yekeghetsi), is a working Armenian church located in Yalta on the Crimean peninsula, Ukraine and completed in 1917. It is modeled after a church of the same name in Vagharshapat, Armenia. In fact, a piece of that UNESCO World Heritage site church was symbolically used in the base of this church.

Church data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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