MONUMENTS

1973

State index: 1.7.4

Architect: Felix Zargaryan

The monument dedicated to  the victims from the city of Malatia who died during the Armenian Genocide in 1915. It is located in a park not far from the Saint Virgin Mary Church in Malatia-Sebastia administrative district.

The residents of the district, many of whom are descendants of immigrants from old Malatia, called their district New Malatia and erected the monument in honor of the old and new, reborn Malatias.

The monument consists of two walls with a complex, stepped configuration. The symmetrical protrusions of the line, which form the multi-profile high relief with rich light and shadows of the wall, the gradual increase in the volume of the stone towards the center, the stepped silhouettes, the bright red color of the building stone have created an expressive plastic structure. There are facades on the seats.
The monument has a unique architectural feature - the gradual and consistent exposure of the walls. The dynamic characteristic embodied in the spiral composition forces the viewer to rotate around the monument, look at it from all sides, from every point of perception it opens up new edges of the image, new perspectives, new resonance of its parts. It is made of red polished tuff.