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A cigarette and flowers seller reads his newspaper while waiting for customers on the Samuel Safaryan Street in the Capital City of Yerevan, Armenia.
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A view of the small village of Ashtarak, Armenia. Ashtarak, which is the Armenian word for tower or fortress, is an ancient village going back to the period between the 24th and 14th centuries BC.
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A mechanic shop on the road from Yerevan to Ashtarak, Armenia.
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Clothes hang to dry on wires stretched between residential buildings. Many Armenians air-dry their clothes after haveing washed them. Residential buildings have wires stretched from one building to another that residents use to hang their clothes on.
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A resident of Ashtarak, Armenia works on some construction in his home. In the background the 7th Century Kamravor Church in may be observed.
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A young girl and her father in front of their home in Ashtarak, Armenia.
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An amusement park closed for the season in the Capital City of Yerevan, Armenia.
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Passengers in a small commercial van that serves as a neighborhood bus in the Capital City of Yerevan, Armenia.
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A network of gas pipes can be seen everywhere in the Capital City of Yerevan, Armenia. They are used to deliver gas to residential buildings.
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An old advertisement poster remains on a wall along the Moldovakan street in the Capital City of Yerevan, Armenia.
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An early morning stroller on the Moldovakan Street in the Capital City of Yerevan, Armenia.
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Two women have a conversation on the stairs leading to an underground pedestrian passage in the Capital City of Yerevan, Armenia.
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The Statute of Karen Demerchyan greets visitors to High School No. 139 named after Karen Demerchyan. Demerchyan was the first Secretary of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1974 to 1988. After Armenia's independence in 1999 he became the first President of the National Assembly until his assassination on October 27, 1999.
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In a residential neighborhood in the Nor Nork District of the Capital City of Yerevan, Armenia.
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The ruins of a building near the Nor Nork Military Commissariat in the Nor Nork District of the Capital City Yerevan, Armenia.
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Two residents of Ashtarak, Armenia work to repair stairs leading to the basement of their home.
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A playful puppy is eager to say hello in the village of Ashtarak, Armenia.
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A young child with her grandmother in Ashtarak, Armenia.
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A woman spends time by herself on the road leading to the Zvartnots Historical-Cultural Museum-Reserve in Vaghashapat, Armenia.
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An attendant sells religious products and candles to be used by worshipers and visitors in the Kamravor Church in Ashtarak, Armenia. Karmravor Church is a small 7th Century Church that has remained largely intact.
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A priest prays during the Sunday service in the Etchmiadzin Cathedral in Vagharshapat, Armenia. The original church was built between 301 and 303. Following the invasion of the Persian Empire, the Church was heavily damaged and so it was rebuilt in 483. The Cathedral is the main shrine of religious Christian Armenians worldwide and was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000.
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Worshipers pray and light candles at the Etchmiadzin Cathedral in Vagharshapat, Armenia. The original church was built between 301 and 303. Following the invasion of the Persian Empire, the Church was heavily damaged and so it was rebuilt in 483. The Cathedral is the main shrine of religious Christian Armenians worldwide and was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000.
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A tomb with the photo of the deceased etched on marble in the cemetery adjacent to the Kamravor Church in Ashtarak, Armenia. Karmravor Church is a small 7th Century Church that has remained largely intact.
Public Story
Lost Paradise
Credits:
nima taradji photography
Date of Work:
02/13/18 - 03/20/18
Updated: 09/20/18
"This people has attained riches without usury, and all the honours that can be awarded to slavery without intrigue. But they have long occupied, nevertheless, a part of the House of Bondage, who has lately multiplied her many mansions. It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians , whose virtues have those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny – and it has been bitter – whatever it may be in future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting, on the globe; and perhaps their language only requires to be more studied to become more attractive.
If the Scriptures are rightly understood, it was in Armenia that Paradise was placed. – Armenia, which has paid as dearly as the descendants of Adam for that fleeting participation of its soil in the happiness of him who was created from its dust. It was in Armenia that the flood first abated, and the dove alighted. But with the disappearance of Paradise itself may be dated almost the unhappiness of the country; for though long a powerful kingdom, it was scarcely ever an independent one, and the satraps of Persia and the pachas of Turkey have alike desolated the region where God created man in his own image.“"
Lord Byron - Armenian Exercises and Poetry (1886)
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