Year 2003 marks 

Krikor Naregatsi’s

1000th anniversary of his death
 and the
1001st anniversary of the Publication of

 "Book of Lamentations"

Naregatsi Art Center
in SHUSHI
ARTSAKH (KARABAGH)

KRIKOR NAREGATSI - St. Gregory of Nareg - (945-1003 A.D.)

   Krikor Naregatsi is one of the most powerful spiritual personas of Armenia born in the province of Vaspurakan, in the village Nareg around 945. He was a mystical writer, poet, musician, and philosopher.

   Naregatsi lived 300 years before Dante. While Dante expressed the external, physical suffering of man, Naregatsi had emerged into the deeper surface, the inner suffering of man. With passionate and powerful flow of pictures he described the everlasting struggle and challenge that man faces every day of his life. Throughout the whole poem, the writer wavers from one extreme emotion to the other languishing in guilt and pessimism, then reveling in the ecstasy of hope and salvation. In all the contradictory feelings though, there is an unconditional faith in God that shines from one end of the poem to the other. And that is the triumph of Naregatsi's soul.

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