Scientists Find Monastery Of "brothers Armenians"

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YEREVAN, AUGUST 8. ARMINFO. Scientists has found a monastery of "Brothers Armenians" in Kyrghyzia. According to ITAR-TASS, the archaeological expedition of Kyrghyz-Russian Slavonic University has founded a Middle Age Christian Monastery on the Northern beach of mountainous Lake Issik-Kul. "We had known about the so-called Catalonian map long ago. The map was drawn by Venice merchants traveling of the Silk Road in the Middle Age. A monastery of "Brothers Armenians" was mentioned in the map. The map was also saying that relics of St. Matthew Apostle were buried near that monastery," Head of the research group of the expedition Alexander Kamishev told ITAR-TASS.

 

The monastery was built in the 14th century, thinks Head of the expedition, academician Vladimir Ploskikh. Kyrghyz archaeologists and scientists thinks the find confirms the data of the Catalonian map, which inspires with hopes for finding the relics of St. Matthew