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Okay, I have filled in more information about the neighborhood, with references, and submitted the draft for review. RaffiKojian (talk) 06:28, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

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Thanks! RaffiKojian (talk) 01:33, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

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It was a short bullet point that listed the offices in the UN which the open letter was directed to, and a quote from the open letter, but I rewrote it so that no questions can remain about this concern. RaffiKojian (talk) 02:32, 29 August 2023 (UTC)

ITN recognition for 2023 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes

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St Gregory paintings in Jerusalem

Hi Raffi. I hope you would be able to help with one seemingly minor matter. There's no readily available source on the large framed oil paintings on the life of St Gregory the Illuminator hanging in Chapel of St Helena/St Gregory the Illuminator of the Holy Sepulchre Church: not the name of the artist, nor on what they represent. Each of them is copiously inscribed in Armenian, which doesn't help me much. I researched the best I could and here is what I have.

There is one showing what I believe to be the inauguration of the Etchmiadzin Cathedral with the double-peaked Ararat Mt in the background (SE); a vision of St Gregory with the Holy Cross showing in the night sky (SW); King Tiridates prostrating himself in front of St Gregory in the dungeon (NW); a baptism scene, probably with King Tiridates (centre of N wall); and 1 more with a strong light coming from above (NE, near door to Chapel of St Vartan). You can get a glimpse of them in this low-quality video. 2 paintings on the S wall and 3 on the N wall. The assymetry may be due to the fact that there's the staircase leading down to the Chapel of the Finding of the Cross on the S side.

A protest note from 1980 speaks of a fire that "destroyed the priceless painting by Mardiros Altonian" and quotes a witness who saw that "(t)he main large painting in the chapel was completely destroyed". Either it was an unconnected work which was indeed destroyed, or the Jordanian diplomat made a common exercise in propaganda and the painting is one of the 5, recently restored and still hanging in the chapel. Anyway, Google only knows of a Lebanese Armenian architect, not painter, by the name of Mardiros Altounian, spelled with ou, and of no such painter.

If it's not easy to find online information even in Armenian, I'm sure there must be people from the Armenian community in Jerusalem able to help. Would you please try to find them? Thank you. Arminden (talk) 08:49, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

I have just written a similar message to User:Yerevantsi (see here), maybe you two can work together. Cheers, Arminden (talk) 09:08, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Mardiros Altounian has his own article. I'll post a link on the talk-page there to this one.

His name is spelled in various ways, including with -onian:

"Efforts were made in ... 1945 ... Armenian architect ... Mardiros Altonian, a specialist in Byzantine architecture, drew up a project for a church at Harissa ..."

This is the source. Arminden (talk) 09:23, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Maybe Altounian was in charge of renovating and redecorating the chapel at some point, rather than painting the pictures himself? Unless there was indeed a painter by the same name active in the region. Arminden (talk) 09:34, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi Arminden. I'll have to look through my old photo scans to see if I have a usable one. I can otherwise try to get someone over there to take a photo, but that might take time. RaffiKojian (talk) 16:34, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. I guess getting photos of the paintings would be the easier exercise. The long captions, written on the frames, would certainly clarify the topic, but wouldn't tell us much about who painted them and when.

I was told that Israeli academic Nirit Shalev-Khalifa has written at least one article about the chapel, probably covering all aspects, but A. online I can't find more than the title and some details, and B. I don't read Hebrew, so I'm trying to get it in a format that allows me to use Google Translate. It's called in translation "The Armenian Chapel in the Name of Saint Gregory the Illuminator in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre", "Ariel" No. 185, October 2008 (Ariel University, Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology Department).

If you can think of another quotable source, preferably in Eng/German/French, that would help. Cheers, Arminden (talk) 16:51, 27 May 2026 (UTC)