Saint Hripsime Church

Saint Hripsime Church is a seventh-century Armenian Apostolic church in the city of Vagharshapat Armenia. It is one of the most established surviving houses of worship in the nation. The congregation was raised by Catholicos Komitas to supplant the first tomb worked by Catholicos Sahak the Great in 395 AD that contained the remaining parts of the martyred Saint Hripsime to whom the congregation is committed. The present structure was finished in 618 AD. It is known for its fine Armenian-style design of the established period, which has affected numerous other Armenian houses of worship since.

It was recorded as a UNESCO World Heritage Site alongside other close-by chapels, including Etchmiadzin Cathedral, Armenia's mom church, in 2000. A Hellenistic sanctuary, like the Temple of Garni and committed to an agnostic goddess, remained in the place of the congregation. Amid unearthings in 1958 the establishment of a fantastic stone working with Hellenistic adornments was found under the supporting column.

Hripsime, alongside the abbess Gayane and thirty-eight anonymous nuns, is customarily viewed as the main Christian saints in Armenia's history. They were mistreated, tormented, and in the end murdered by lord Tiridates III of Armenia. As per the recorder Agathangelos, after the change to Christianity in 301, Tiridates and Gregory the Illuminator manufactured a martyrium committed to Hripsime at the area of her affliction, which was half covered underground.