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One of the feasts dedicated to the Blessed Virgin is the Presentation of Virgin Mary (Holy Mother of God) to the temple. All Christian churches celebrate this feast on November 21, Qahana.am reports.

According to the church tradition, after Mary’s becoming three-year-old, the parents of the Holy Virgin, Jehoiakim and Anna, fulfilling their promise, bring Mary to the temple and present her to God. Mary remains in the church till her engagement.

Establishment of the feast is related to the cathedral, which was built by the King Justinian in honor of St. Mary, the Holy Mother of God, in the place of the old Jewish temple, on the hill Moria. The cathedral was consecrated on November 21, 543 AD.

After 638 AD, when the cathedral, built by Justinian, was converted into a Moslem temple, the celebration of the feast spread throughout the entire Christian world. The feast of Presentation of St. Mary to the Church was included in the Armenian Apostolic Church calendar in the nineteenth century.