Monuments of Yerevan - Matenadaran

Matenadaran

The Matenadaran Mesrop Mashtots of ancient manuscripts is one of the richest libraries in books and manuscripts in the world. It has 17,000 manuscripts with some of them dating from 405, the year that Mashtots invented the Armenian alphabet.

Founded in 1959 in order to preserve and maintain ancient manuscripts, it is located in Mashtots avenue.

• Mashdots Avenue.

• One of the manuscripts in the Matenadaran.