Heritage · church intact
Bethlehem Church, New Julfa
Surb Astvatsatsin Bethlehem.
New Julfa, Isfahan · Armenian heritage
· built 1627
One of the principal Armenian churches of the New Julfa quarter of Isfahan, with one of the most complete cycles of post-Safavid Armenian frescoes (the Last Judgment, the Genesis cycle). Built within a generation of the Shah Abbas relocation of Armenians from Old Julfa.
One of the principal Armenian churches of the New Julfa quarter of Isfahan, with one of the most complete cycles of post-Safavid Armenian frescoes (the Last Judgment, the Genesis cycle). Built within a generation of the Shah Abbas relocation of Armenians from Old Julfa.