Artist: Armen Atayan
Title: The Saviour Church, 2015
Location: Artist's Collection
The artist depicted the dilapidated church. which has seen so much pain and sufferings, but still standing in Ani’s devastations an impressionistic spirit.
Ani was the 11th capital of the historic Armenia which used to be famous as "the city of thousand and one churches". The city was founded in the 5th century. Later in centuries, Ani has been subjected to invaders attacks.As a result of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire, the inhantends were forced to migrate from their fatherland. The Ani’s devastations remained in the hands of Turks, the invaders who later on tried to wrench the Armenian history by their groundless attempts to present Ani as a part of their history country.