Traditional Armenian Bread

Lavash

10 Sept 2014 | From Greta of Armenia

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Lavash is a traditinal Armenian bread baked in a hole called tonir by a skilled woman. In this postcard, a woman is seen sleeping among freshly baked lavash. It is  a soft, thin flatbread tastier when warm and with cheese and greens. 

From ancient times till now the Tonir was worshiped by the Armenians like other sun symbols and it is known as a symbol of Sun in the ground. Ancient Armenians made tonirs in resemblance with the setting sun “going into the ground”. The underground, clay Tonir is one of the first tools of Armenian cuisine, as an oven and as a thermal treatment tool.

My first postcard from Armenia

 
The Temple of Garni
12 Aug, 2014 | From Ani of Armenia
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The Temple of Garni is a first century Hellenic temple near Garni, Armenia. It is the only pagan temple in Armenia that survived the Christianization of the country in the early 4th century. It is also the only "Greco-Roman colonnaded building" in Armenia and the entire former Soviet Union.

One of the world's oldest civilizations, Armenia once included Mount Ararat, which biblical tradition identifies as the mountain that Noah's ark rested on after the flood. It was the first country in the world to officially embrace Christianity as its religion (c. A.D. 300).