A few minutes travel time of capital and you at one the oldest Armenian Church, the complex Garni (3.Jh. o.C.). The architecture ensemble consists of the fortress, the palace and the brightistic temple. On the triangular rock plateau, which drops from 300m height perpendicularly to the river Asat, remainders of a powerful military fortress, remained for the summer residence of the Armenian kings. The enormous basalt right parallelepipeds solidified for the eternity, them give customer of the power of the rulers, them protected.

The temple was over 16 centuries. Humans became enthusiastic at his completed forms, at the floating, almost already celestial beauty. A strong earthquake broke 1679 off in Armenia, and the sun temple was swallowed by the ground.
The reconstruction of the sun temple began 1966 and required ten years of exerted work. Each architecture detail had to be arranged, each found Stones to its workstation to be set. After completion of the project numerous technical functions were to be solved. It applied to procure the appropriate building material and process it in such a way, as it was common in the antiquity. For the first time in the restoration practice epoxy resins were used for " joining " places destroyed by details in. The Projektant and scientific director/conductor of the work A. Sainjan were appreciated of earnings/services for its around the re-creation of the temple 1976 with the state State of that Armenia.

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