View Finder No.48
A tomb like no other in Yerevan, Armenia
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Just off Arshakunyats Avenue, a major thoroughfare in Yerevan, you’ll find Komitas Pantheon, a burial ground named after Komitas Vardapet (1869-1935), a saintly scholar-singer who has come to symbolise Armenian sacred music.
This graveyard is where many of Armenia’s finest, and most famous, cultural figures have been laid to rest, including Komitas himself and one of my favourite artists, Martiros Saryan (you can read more about Saryan and his remarkable paintings in this Journeys Beyond Borders newsletter).
As you can see in the photograph below, one of the graves has been topped with a fantastic monumental bust, marking the burial spot of one of the very greatest creative minds of the 20th-century.
Read on to find out more…
