Samvel Hakobyan points into his open Zvartnots maquette.

Heritage: Samvel Hakobyan

Samvel Hakobyan with Zvartnots

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Yerevan

Samvel Hakobyan points into his open Zvartnots 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.

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