Armenian Apostolic Holy Church The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin

The Sunday following the Exaltation is the pilgrimage day of St. Stepanos Church of Nigavan community. The dilapidated church built in the 1870s was re-consecrated in 2015. On the occasion of the 9th anniversary of the re-consecration of St. Stepanos Church of Nigavan community, with the blessings of His Holiness Karekin II and His Grace Bishop Mkrtich Proshyan, Primate of the Diocese of Aragatsotn, the Relic of St. Stepanos the Proto-Deacon was brought from the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin to the church for the first time.