YEREVAN, AUGUST 17, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. A visit
to the Yerevan Mayor's Office Museum and Oshakan was scheduled
for August 13 for the Diasporan Armenian young people arrived
within the framework of the second stage of the Come Home
program. The young people got acquainted at the museum with the
history of Yerevan, recollecting the historic extracts they have
learned from their text-books.
Then the young people went to Oshakan, sharing with their
impressions on the way.
The Regional Governor greeted the program participants at
the Regional Governor's Office of Oshakan. The young people
visited Mesrop Mashtots' graveyard where they bent before the
grave of the inventor of the Armenian letters and again
recollected the first teacher's lesson: "to know wisdom and
instruction, to perceive the words of understanding."
The travelling of that day finished by visiting the Mughnu
Church. There were a lot of impressions on that day: the young
people were discussing for a long time on their return way what
they have seen, listened and felt.