Art of Khachkar & Consecration Ceremony
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2018 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2018 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 2: Armenia / 2.3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2018 July 07
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content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2018, Item SFF2018_0707_Armenia_Hyurasenyak_0004
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: Levon Abrahamian; Father Sakris Aktavoukian; Father Simeon Odabashian; Father Hovsep Karapetian; The khachkar, or cross-stone, is a tradition unique to Armenian culture. Join scholar and Armenia: Creating Home curator Levon Abrahamian for a short talk about the tradition, followed by a consecration ceremony of the Festival's two khachkars at the Stone tent, led by Very Rev. Fr. Simeon Odabashian, Diocesan Vicar.