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Temple Garni（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/garni/）
Geghard Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/geghard/）
Ejmiatsin (Holy See)（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/ejmiatsin/）
Gandzasar Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/gandzasar/）
Dadivank Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/dadivank/）
Goshavank Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/goshavank/）
Haghartsin Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/haghartsin/）
Kecharis Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/kecharis/）
Khor Virap Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/khorvirap/）
Noravank Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/noravank/）
Saghmosavank Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/saghmosavank/）
Sanahin Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/sanahin/）
Tatev Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/tatev/）
Zvartnots Temple（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/zvartnots/）
Marmashen Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/marmashen/）
Mughni Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/Mughni/）
Haghpat Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/ahpat/）
Harichavank Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/harichavank/）
St. Gayane Church（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/gayane/）
St. Hripsime Church（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/hripsime/）
Jukhtak Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/dzhuhtak/）
St. Shoghakat Church（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/church_shogakat/）
St. Stepanos Church（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/church_stepanos/）
Yereruyk Basilica（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/ereruyskaya_basilic/）
Makaravank Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/makaravank/）
Kobayr Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/kobair/）
Havuts-Tar Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/avutstar/）
Gndevank Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/gndevank/）
Vorotnavank Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/vorotnavank/）
Sevanavank Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/sevanavank/）
Amaras Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/monasamaras/）
Odzun Church（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/monastery_odzun/）
Karmravor Church（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/church_karmravor/）
Tsiranavor Church（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/sitsenavor/）
Hovhannavank Monastery（http://www.atb.am/en/armenia/sights/christ/monastery_ovanavank/）
Temple Garni
Almost anyone who comes to Armenia visits Garni, and they think it is the 76 AD temple and Roman style baths. Many learn when they visit that the cyclopic stone walls that surround the royal summer residence and temple are were in fact first laid in the 3rd millennium BC by ancestral Armenians who developed the region into one of the greatest metallurgical and trading powers in Mesopotamia and Asia Minor.
The temple itself was built on top of an Urartian temple, and has the same floor dimensions as the temple of Sushi in Erebuni (5.05 X 7.98 meters). A common feature of sacred structures from oldest times through the Christian era is to orient the structures to the East, that is, to the rising sun.
The temple of Garni itself was dedicated to the sun goddess Mythra.