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{{Short description|Monument in Armenia}}
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[[File:Charent's Arch Armenia msu-2018-3105.jpg|thumb|The front of Charent's Arch]]
'''Arch of Charents''' or '''Charent's Arch''' ({{lang-hy|Չարենցի կամար}}) is a monument and tourist attraction erected in 1975 and dedicated to the Armenian poet [[Yeghishe Charents]]. The monument is 1500 m high and is located in the village of [[Voghjaberd]] in the [[Kotayk Province]] of [[Armenia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://360stories.com/armenia/place/charents-arch|title=Charents Arch|publisher=360 Stories|access-date=2023-10-27}}</ref>

==Design==

The person who created this arch was [[Rafayel Israyelian]].<ref>{{in lang|hy}} Հայկական Սովետական Հանրագիտարան (Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia) 4.djvu - Page 420 from the [[Armenian Encyclopedia]] - 1985</ref> He decided to make the arch out of [[basalt]] for the exterior and the native [[Tuff|orange tuff]] for the interior. The monument was also made in a rectangular shape with its dimensions being 5.5 x 10 m and a height of 5 m. The arch itself has a radius of 3.5 m.

The arch also has a quote from Charents's poem "I Love My Sweet Armenia's..." engraved in it, which says:

"There is no summit as snow-white as that of lofty Ararat;

Like an inaccessible path to glory, I love my Mount Masis!"<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://hushardzan.am/archives/28620|title=ՆՈՐ ՏԵՂԵԿԱՏՎԱԿԱՆ ՎԱՀԱՆԱԿ ՉԱՐԵՆՑԻ ԿԱՄԱՐ ՀՈՒՇԱՐՁԱՆԻ ՏԱՐԱԾՔՈՒՄ|publisher=Hushardzan|access-date=2023-12-15|date=June 23, 2023|language=Armenian}}</ref>

==Significance==
[[File:Mount Ararat from Charents' Arch 1.jpg|thumb|The view of Mt Ararat from the arch]]
For this monument, Rafayel Israyelian was awarded the honorary title of the [[People's Architect of the USSR]].<ref>{{in lang|hy}} Ինչ է, ով է (What is, Who is) 2.djvu - Page 147 from Armenian Encyclopedia - 1985</ref> The monument is significant due to its view of important Armenian places such as [[Mount Ararat]] and [[Yerevan]].

The monument also has significance in being one of, if not the first, monument to someone that experienced [[Political repression in the Soviet Union|Stalin's repressions]] as he was imprisoned due to his Armenian nationalism in his poetry and had died imprisoned in 1937.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discoverarmenia.info/en/journals/3/72/ |title=PRINTED ISSUES / FEB 2009 / YEGHISHE CHARENTS |access-date=2023-10-27 |archive-date=2012-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425122336/http://www.discoverarmenia.info/en/journals/3/72/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Temple of Garni]]
*[[Geghard Monastery]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Monuments and memorials in Armenia]]
[[Category:Monuments and memorials built in the Soviet Union]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Kotayk Province]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Kotayk Province]]

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