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by Karlos Zurutuza

Karlos Zurutuza, a regular contributor to hidden europe, tracks down an intriguing church in the heart of Yerevan, capital of Armenia.

It takes a bit of finding despite what they say in Yerevan. "You won't miss it" they'll tell you. "It's right in the city centre". And so it is, hidden away near the junction of Sayat Nova and Abovyan street. But it is not until the man at the corner waves you on into a courtyard that you get to see the 'Katoghike' church.

This is the most extraordinary of Yerevan churches - the oldest in a city full of churches.

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This article was published in hidden europe 17.

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Karlos Zurutuza

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hidden europe author Karlos Zurutuza

Not content with the conventional maps of Europe and the Middle East, Karlos decided to hit the road and produce his own! He maps the contours of cultural life: Aromanians from Albania, Yezidies in northern Iraq, Armenian villages in Abkhazia and the Georgians in South Ossetia. These and a myriad of other isolated communities are the ‘pixels’ that Karlos plots on his ‘hi-res’ maps. Were it not for the magnetic effect that the mountains of Kurdistan have on him, he would gladly spend his entire life circumnavigating the Black Sea. He travels light, yet there is always space in his small backpack for two favourite books: Neil Ascherson’s The Black Sea and Jules Verne’s Keraban the Terrible. Karlos writes in Basque, Spanish and English. His work has been published in several newspapers and magazines.

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