On the opposite side of Havlapar, the mixed sector of Meydan, known for its bazars. Here the Armenian church of Surp Kevork, under the walls of Medekh fortress.

Surp Kevork church seen from Medekh fortress. The Kur river separates this mixed sector, known as Meydan from purely Armenian Havlapar.

The Meydan mixed sector, seen from Armenian Havlapar.

The Armenian Church of Surp Kevork in Meydan, the old mixed sector of Tiflis, behind the specter of a Georgian King.

The Armenian Church of Surp Kevork is one of the two remaining churches in Armenian hands, from the original dozens..
And the unique one functional, since New Etchmidzin is dangerously damaged.

The dome of the Surp Kevork (St George) church of Tiflis.

The entrance of Surp Kevork church Meydan, the last functional Armenian church, from the original dozens of Tiflis.

Surp Kevork.

An inside look to the church of Surp Kevork, the last functional church of Tiflis.

Inside Surp Kevork.

Religious ceremony in Tiflis's last functional church, St Kevork.

In the yard of Surp Kevork (St George).
On the horizon, we can notice the walls of the Medekh unfamous fortress, where thouzands of Armenian 'Nationalist' ended..
First plan, next to the entrance, the tomb of Sayat Nova.

A closer look to Sayat Nova's tomb.

Collective tombstones, englobing famous Armenian clerics, under the walls of Surp Kevork (St George), in Tiflis..

Surp Kevork..

Havlapar was the exclusively Armenian sector of Tiflis, from the very first days its foudation. Theese rich Armenian houses are near the church of Norashen.

Typical Armenian architecture of Havlapar..

Old Havlapar...
Most of this heritage will disapear soon, to make place for the new Presidential palace of Mr Sahakashvili...

The Ararat street in Havalapar...

Havlapar style balconies were common in Shoushi, Yerevan, and Kars, as wellas old sectors of Akhaltzkha..

Typical Armenian architecture of Tiflis, Havlapar district..

Old Havlapar crumbling..
This building's architecture is already largely inspired from Tzarist Russian traditions, widely used end of XIX cent. in the main Transcaucasian towns of Tiflis, Baku, Shushi, Kars, Gyumri, Kantzak..

Old Havlapar, exclusively Armenian, crumbling in ruins...Most of this heritage will disapear soon, to make place for the new Presidential palace of Mr Sahakashvili...

In the narrow streets of Meydan, climbing to the church of Surp Kevork..

Old Armenian homes..

Old Armenian houses of Tiflis.
walking towards Havlapar, from the opposite side of the Kur river.
The domes of Norashen Armenian and St Sion Georgians churches are visible from here.

Havlapar seen from Meydan.

Norashen, on the left, is a symbol of Tiflis's Armenian past, reason of its targetting by Ilia II's 'clerical' mob.

Norashen's church, one of the major elements of Armenian heritage, is among the 6 churches, not yet Georgianized, that the Archbishop of Tiflis finally asked back, among the original 650 usurpated churches ..

Norashen Armenian church, on the way of 'Georgianization' since 2004..

The Norashen church of Havlapar is target to Georgia's state sponsored Cultural Genocide policy.
Here an Armenian cross and inscriptions still intact..

спасибо! ARMENIA!

At the entrance of Norashen church.
Armenian inscriptions still intact..

At the entrance of Norashen, fragments of Armenian Khatchkars (cross stones), destroyed by the 'Monks' of 'father' Tariel, destroyed on 2005.

Armenian tombstones, vandalized and ment to destruction in Havlapar's Norashen church, dating XV cent...
They were saved thanks to the protests of Tiflisahays, but displaced, and reversed...

First plan, a Greek church already Georgianized by the mob of 'father' Tariel.
On the second plan, the dome of Armenian Norashen church, dating XV cent, object to the latters attacks since 1995..

The entrance of Havlapar's Norashen church, after 'archeological' works by the 'mob' of 'father' Tariel in 2005...
Armenian Khatchkars and tombstones are all vanished from the yard!

The Nor Etchmidzin church of Tiflis, in Havlapar, is the second, still in Armenian hands..

Inside Nor Etchmiadzin, actually not functional church in Tiflis...