{"id":3577,"date":"2010-09-20T10:48:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T07:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2010-09-20T10:49:23","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T07:49:23","slug":"armenian-christians-religious-ceremony-in-akdamar-church-1725493","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/armenian-christians-religious-ceremony-in-akdamar-church-1725493\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Christians Hold Religious Ceremony in Akdamar Church after 95 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/armenian-christians.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3578\" title=\"Armenian Christians Hold Religious Ceremony in Akdamar Church after 95 Years\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/armenian-christians-340x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/armenian-christians-340x255.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/armenian-christians.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a>Armenian Christians made religious ceremony on Sunday at a historical Armenian church located in an eastern Turkish province for the first time after 95 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Armenian Church located on Akdamar Island in Lake Van in Turkey&#8217;s Van province was opened to worshippers for a single day.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s ritual, directed by Archbishop Aram Atesyan of the Armenian Patriarchate of Turkey, lasted 2 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Christians arrived at Akdamar to attend today&#8217;s mass, as only 50 protocol members could be allowed in the church due to lack of space inside the historical building. Guests watched the ceremony via two giant screens built-up in the church&#8217;s garden. High-level officials, diplomats, journalists, Armenian community members and officials from Germany, France, several other European countries and USA attended the ceremony.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian Christians Hold Religious Ceremony in Akdamar Church after 95 Years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,137,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-sectoral","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}