''ARCHBISHOP KARAPET BAGRATOUNI'' EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL CENTER

The ''Archbishop Karapet Bagratouni'' Educational and Cultural Center of the Samtskhe-Javakheti and Tsalka's General Prelacy operates under the auspices of the Armenian Diocese in Georgia. It is placed in the prelacy of Akhalkalaki.

The Center was established in 2006. In 2018 with the blessing of the Primate of the Armenian Diocese in Georgia, His Grace Bishop Vazgen Mirzakhanyan, the Center was renamed after Archbishop Karapet Bagratouni.

The activities of the Center are aimed at gathering all the faithful of different ages from the Akhalkalaki region and nearby villages around the Armenian Apostolic Holy Church, expanding and deepening their knowledge of the history of the Armenian Church and Armenian people, as well as spreading of Armenian culture. The Center organizes debates on various spiritual and national topics.

After the establishment of the Center, the operating groups received names, including:

''Zartonk'' Dance Group,

Saint Gregory of Tatev (Surb Grigor Tatevatsi) one-day school,

''Voices of Javakhk'' Choir,

Debate Club.

Armenuhi Poghosyan is the head of the ''Karapet Archbishop Bagratouni'' Educational and Cultural Center.

Armenuhi Poghosyan is an archaeologist-historian. She graduated from the Faculty of History at Yerevan State University and obtained a master's degree from the Department of Archaeology at the same faculty. Additionally, she pursued postgraduate studies at the RA Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences in Yerevan.

Since 2015 she has been working in Samtskhe-Javakheti and Tsalka's General Prelacy.

Phone: 595 48 67 87

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