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Bambakashat ( – meaning "plenty of cotton"); is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia.

Key facts

Settlement.official_name
Bambakashat
Settlement.native_name
Բամբակաշատ
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Բամբակաշատի Սուրբ Աստվածածին Եկեղեցի 05.jpg
Settlement.image_caption
The church of Bambakashat
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Armenia
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150px
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_name
Armenia
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Marz (Province)
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Armavir
Settlement.population_as_of
2011
Settlement.population_total
3,110
Settlement.timezone
 
Settlement.utc_offset
+4
Settlement.timezone_DST
 
Settlement.utc_offset_DST
+5

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Bambakashat ( – meaning "plenty of cotton"); is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia.

The Church of the Holy Mother of God in Bambakashat was built between 1901 and 1914 replacing a 17th-century wooden chapel. It was consecrated by Catholicos Mkrtich Khrimian in 1914. During the Soviet period, the church was used as warehouse for chemicals. In 1987, the church was reopened by the efforts of Catholicos Vazgen I. It was entirely renovated in 1991 and became the seat of the Armavir diocese on 30 May 1996. The church was the seat of the Armavir Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church before moving to the Holy Mother of God Church in Vagharshapat.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bambakashat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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