Aghtamar Island Holy Cross Armenian Church promotes development of tourism in Van

YEREVAN, MAY 6, ARMENPRESS. The Holy Cross Armenian Church situated on Aghtamar Island of Lake Van has greatly contributed to the increase in the number of tourists in the town of Van. As reports "Armenpress", this is written in the Armenian "Agos" weekly. The renovation works of the Holy Cross Church started on May 20, 2005, and had reached the end on July 21, 2006. Already on March 29, 2007 it was officially opened as a cultural museum.

According to the information of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Van, if before 2006 the visitors of the Armenian Church of the Holy Cross Church on the island of Aghtamar constituted a few hundreds, in 2009 their number was 34 thousand, and already in 2013 the number of the visitors reached 71 thousand.