A photo exhibition of Karen Stelmashov, a resident of Javakheti, and the demonstration of success of his 9-year-old daughter, Anahit Stelmashova, in music was held in the Hayartun Center at the Armenian Diocese in Georgia, on February 20, 2016.

The birthday of the great Armenian writer Hovhannes Tumanyan was on February 19. As every year, on the initiative of the Hayartun Center at the Armenian Diocese in Georgia and with the support of the Diocesan Headquarters, Armenians of Tbilisi traditionally visited the Tbilisi Pantheon of the Armenian Writers and Public Figures “Khojivank” and laid flowers on the tomb of the great Armenian writer born in the Lori region.

The State Agency for Religious Issues presented the report of 2015. In terms of the restitution of ownership on religious buildings taken from the religious entities by the Soviet Union, in 2015, 35 mosque buildings in Adjara were returned to the Muslim community (79 mosques were returned to the Muslim community of Georgia since 2014). The Jewish community got back 5 synagogues (altogether 12 synagogues since 2014).

Honorable state officials, public figures, spiritual brothers, dear brothers and sisters, let me greet you on behalf of the clergy and the faithful of the Armenian Diocese in Georgia; we raise our prayers to God for your good health, longevity, peace and salvation.