Zvartnots: the carving

Material

Hand-carved tufa

Detail of a carved stone arch on the 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.

Work by Samvel Hakobyan