HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
NORQ PARISH SCHOOL
1860
State index: 1.9.4.8
It
is located in Old Norq, on Sero Khanzadyan Street.
The
first parish school of Norq, a boys’ school, was founded in 1860 on the
southern side of the courtyard of the Church of St. Simeon, on the initiative
of senior priest Poghos Ter-Avetisyan. In 1866, a girls’ school was opened in
Norq. In 1877, the wealthy Norq resident Movses Harutyunyan, in memory of his
wife, built a new building for the girls’ school named Surb Shoghakat on the
northern side of the courtyard. In 1880, it also incorporated the boys’ school,
increasing the number of students to 110. The school had a rich library, which
in the late 1880s contained up to 2,000 volumes.
The
school building is a single-story structure oriented with its main façade
facing east. It consists of a system of irregularly arranged rooms connected by
corridor doors. The northern and southern walls are blind. On the northern part
of the western façade there is an open veranda with wooden columns.
The
central section slightly projects from the main plane and is finished with a
parapet. The entrances are located at the edges of the main façade. The masonry
of this façade is made of finely dressed black tuff, while other parts are
built of roughly dressed stone. The roof is wooden, and traces of straw-mixed
clay are visible on the interior walls.
Over
the years, the building has undergone changes, resulting in the transformation
of the original six rooms into eight.
Currently,
the building houses Branch No. 11 of HayPost.
