Monastere de Geghard

Une mere tient sa fille dans son prejudice devant un autel avec des bougies allumees et une croix, au monastere de Geghard, en Armenie, le 29 juin 2014 ---- A mother holds her daughter in her harm in front of an altar with burning candles and a cross in a chapel at Geghard Monastery in Armenia on 29 June 2014. The monastery is of particular significance for the believers and followers of the Armenian Apostolic Church. The unabridged name of the monastery, Geghardavank, means 'the Monastery of the Spear' referring to the Holy Lance which had wounded Jesus at the Crucifixion. Apostle Thaddeus is supposed to have brought the spear to Armenia. There exists a UNESCO partnership with Lorsch Abbey in Hesse, Germany. Armeina was the first country to make Christianity its state religion in 301