Gethsemane Chapel ( Armenian : Գեթսեմանի մատուռ , romanized : Get’semani matur’ ) was a small Armenian Apostolic church in the historical Shahar district of Yerevan , Armenia , that was destroyed during the 1920s to make way for the construction of the Yerevan Opera Theater on what is known today as the Tumanyan street.
1-422: The Gethsemane Chapel was built by the end of the 17th century, replacing a 13th-century domed basilica ruined during the 1679 earthquake . However, the chapel of Gethsemane had a shape of single-nave basilica with no dome. It was surrounded by the old Yerevan cemetery. It was entirely renovated in 1901 through the donation of the wealthy Yerevanian Melik-Aghamalyan family. The chapel was eventually destroyed during
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