Armenian community inaugurates cultural center and Sunday school

The Armenian community in Moldova is opening a cultural center called “Armenia” and a Sunday school in memory of Mesrop Mastot, who created the Armenian alphabet, in Chisinau on Saturday afternoon, starting at 14.00. A religious ceremony will be then held at the Armenian Church in Chisinau. The festivities will be attended by representatives of the Armenian authorities, Info-Prim Neo reports. Venera Gasparean, the head of the Armenian community in Moldova, told a news conference that the creation of the Armenian cultural center “Armenia” lasted for about two years. At the center, the visitors can see different objects, old literature and clothes typical of the Armenian culture. The center will run dance, vocal, theater, sculpture and cooking courses. “We want very much to create a band of instrumentalists because we are often invited to different concerts and we should enlarge our repertoire. The guests representing the Armenian government, who will come to the opening of the center, promised to bring the necessary instruments,” Venera Gasparean said. ”We planned to inaugurate the center in the presence of the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan, while he had been in Chisinau to take part in the CIS summit, but we did not manage to as he had a tight schedule.” Venera Gasparean also said that a Sunday school had worked at the Armenian Church, but it did not have a stable program. “When the school in the name of Mesrop Mastot is opened, the young Armenians and people of other nationalities could attend the school once a week. The classes will last for two hours. They will study Armenian and will learn about the Armenian literature, history and geography. The students will wear traditional clothes. ”The children must know and speak the mother tongue. At a meeting of Premier Vlad Filat and representatives of minorities in Moldova, I asked him to help us register the school so that those who will graduate from it could get certificates,” Gasparean said. At the new conference, Sera Sarchisean, a young Armenian ethnic, said that she wants to know more about the country of her ancestors. “I was born in Moldova and has not yet been to Armenia, but I know that it is a beautiful country and want to discover it,” she said. According to Venera Gasparean, there are more than 10,000 Armenian ethnics in Moldova. Most of them live in Chisinau.