Holy All Saviors Cathedral Unattributed St. Amenaprkich; S. Amena'prkich' vank'; St. Joseph of Aramithea; Surb Amenaperkitch, Vank Cathedral, Church of the Saintly Sisters; All Saviour's Cathedral; New Julfa Unknown Cathedrals Museums Religious buildings Churches Bell towers An exemplary specimen of Armenian architectural achievement, the Cathedral was one of the first churches to be established in the city's Julfa quarter by Armenian immigrants settled by Shah Abbas I after the Ottoman War of 1603-05. Originally a modest centre of Gregorian Christanity in Persia, the church was rebuilt as a magnificent cathedral over the relics of St. Joseph of Arimathia with the patronage of the Safavid emperors. Construction is believed to have begun in 1606, and completed with major alterations to design between 1655 and 1664. The cathedral consists of domed sanctuary much alike a Persian mosque and eastern churches but with the significant addition of a semi-octagonal apse and raised chancel usually seen in western churches. The courtyard contains a large freestanding belfry towering over the graves of both Orthodox Armenians and Protestant Christians. The cathedral's exteriors are in relatively modern brickwork and are exceptionally plain compared to its ornately decorated interior with wall paintings and gilded carvings beyond a wainscot of rich tile work, reaching up to its high ceiling and dome. The delicately blue and gold painted central dome depicts the Biblical story of creation of the world and man's expulsion from Eden. The cathedral today houses a museum, a historic printing press, and a large library invaluable for research in Armenian and medieval European languages and arts. Archibishop David Images Digital Tiff; Jpeg2000 C-0228 Parsegian, V.L.. Armenian Architecture (Zug, Switzerland; IDC, 1980) Armenian Jolfa, East Azerbaijan Province, Isfahan region, Iran 1658-1663 CE Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Armenian Educational Council
Holy All Saviors Cathedral
Unattributed
St. Amenaprkich; S. Amena'prkich' vank'; St. Joseph of Aramithea; Surb Amenaperkitch, Vank Cathedral, Church of the Saintly Sisters; All Saviour's Cathedral; New Julfa
Unknown
Cathedrals
Museums
Religious buildings
Churches
Bell towers
An exemplary specimen of Armenian architectural achievement, the Cathedral was one of the first churches to be established in the city's Julfa quarter by Armenian immigrants settled by Shah Abbas I after the Ottoman War of 1603-05. Originally a modest centre of Gregorian Christanity in Persia, the church was rebuilt as a magnificent cathedral over the relics of St. Joseph of Arimathia with the patronage of the Safavid emperors. Construction is believed to have begun in 1606, and completed with major alterations to design between 1655 and 1664. The cathedral consists of domed sanctuary much alike a Persian mosque and eastern churches but with the significant addition of a semi-octagonal apse and raised chancel usually seen in western churches. The courtyard contains a large freestanding belfry towering over the graves of both Orthodox Armenians and Protestant Christians. The cathedral's exteriors are in relatively modern brickwork and are exceptionally plain compared to its ornately decorated interior with wall paintings and gilded carvings beyond a wainscot of rich tile work, reaching up to its high ceiling and dome. The delicately blue and gold painted central dome depicts the Biblical story of creation of the world and man's expulsion from Eden. The cathedral today houses a museum, a historic printing press, and a large library invaluable for research in Armenian and medieval European languages and arts.
Archibishop David
Images
Digital
Tiff; Jpeg2000
C-0228
Parsegian, V.L.. Armenian Architecture (Zug, Switzerland; IDC, 1980)
Armenian
Jolfa, East Azerbaijan Province, Isfahan region, Iran
1658-1663 CE
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY; Armenian Educational Council