Samvel Hakobyan with Garni

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Yerevan

Samvel Hakobyan seated beside his Garni temple maquette.

Samvel Hakobyan, People's Master of Armenia, has spent more than forty years building maquettes of Armenian churches. There are more than thirty: some carved in tufa, the same volcanic stone as the churches; others in silver and gold, with obsidian, agate, onyx and mother of pearl.

Work by Samvel Hakobyan