Armenian alphabet
Videos
The Armenian alphabet or, more broadly, the Armenian script, is an alphabetic writing system developed for Armenian and occasionally used to write other languages. It was developed around 405 AD by Me
Tatev Monastery, 8th century
Armenian inscription from Yererouk Basilica, 5th century
Armenian cross from Jerusalem, 5–6th centuries
Armenian script-puzzle in Jerusalem. It is dated to the second half of the VII century
Mesrop Mashtots
Videos
Mesrop Mashtots was an Armenian linguist, composer, theologian, statesman, and hymnologist. He is venerated as a saint in the Armenian Apostolic Church.
This 1882 painting by Stepanos Nersissian (now kept at the Pontifical Residence in Etchmiadzin) is a commonly reproduced image of Mashtots.
A depiction of Mashtots in Kapan's St. Mesrop Mashtots Church
A Soviet-era sculpture of Mashtots in Yerevan
Mesrop in a 1776 Armenian manuscript