Mother Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin, one of the oldest churches in the world.

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Mother Cathedral of Holy Etchmiadzin, one of the oldest churches in the world, it was first built by Saint Gregory the Illuminator as a vaulted basilica in 301-303, when Armenia had just adopted Christianity as a state religion (the first such in world history).

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