HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
NORAGAVIT PARISH SCHOOL
1865
State index: 1.11.9.4
It
is located on 7th Street of Noragavit, on the road leading to St. Gevorg
Church.
In
1864, the village community appealed to the Etchmiadzin Synod requesting the
opening of a parish school. The school was opened one year later, in February
1865. In 1873 it had one teacher and 30 students; in 1881, one teacher and 25
students. In the list of closed Armenian schools of 1885 it is not mentioned,
and it was probably closed earlier. In the late 1905s it was reopened as a
single-grade boys’ school. In the 1907–1908 academic year it had two teachers
and fifty students. In 1913–1914 it functioned as a three-year mixed school with
32 boys and 28 girls. In February 1914 it had 49 students, and in 1917, 60
students, of whom 20 were girls.
Instead
of the closed Armenian school, a state Russian school operated in Noragavit
during 1901–1905.
The
parish school building is a long, single-story structure oriented north–south,
with a rectangular plan and a single-row arrangement of rooms. The windows of
the main façade are arched. The courtyard façade is characterized by an open
wooden veranda extending along the entire length of the building. The roof is
double-pitched, and the covering is sheet metal. It is built of yellow finely
dressed tuff using mixed masonry.
In
later periods, the school rooms were used as residential dwellings by different
families. Numerous reconstructions were carried out.
