* A trip to the spiritual center of Armenia, the city of Etchmiadzin. Our immersion in the spiritual history of Armenia will begin with a visit to the church of St. Hripsime (618), built on the site of an ancient pagan temple where St. Hripsime was martyred. Hripsime's death marked the beginning of a sequence of events that eventually led to the baptism of Armenia. Hripsime Temple is the best monument of the type of central domed structures in Armenia and is characterized by majestic simplicity, solemn monumentality and richness of three-dimensional forms. Here we will see the Armenian Cathedral, the creation of which is shrouded in a beautiful history. According to legend, the first Patriarch of Armenia, Gregory the Illuminator, dreamed that the Only–Begotten Christ descended from heaven with a fiery hammer in his hands and indicated the location for the construction of a cathedral on the site where an ancient pagan temple was located at that time. The word "Etchmiadzin" in Armenian means "the place of the descent of the Only Begotten." Here we will visit the museum-treasury of Etchmiadzin, where, among the numerous Christian relics, the Spear of Longinus is kept, which pierced Christ, as well as the miraculously found and preserved remains of Noah's Ark. And our tour will end with a visit to the ruins of the majestic Zvartnots temple, which means "Temple of the Watchful Angels". The temple was built back in the 7th century and has survived to the present day in ruins. But even in this form, it gives a vivid idea of its majestic beauty.