Armenian manuscripts and altar curtain go on display at Paris exhibition
The Insitut du Monde Arabe in Paris on Monday opened an exhibition titled “The Birth of Christianity in the Middle East”. French President Emmanuel Macron and Lebanese President Michel Aoun were present at the opening ceremony of the exhibition.
The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem loaned two 14th-century manuscripts and a curtain of an altar dating back to 1798 to the exhibition, Hovnan Baghdasaryan, Chancellor at Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, said in a Facebook post.
The exhibition also makes a reference to the Armenian Genocide, displaying pictures of the arrival of the Armenian refugees to Aleppo and Egypt.