An Armenian Sabbath-School opens in Moldova

In Moldova an Armenian Sabbath-School aft. Mesrop Mashtots opened with 22 pupils’ staff, of this the elders are 75 years old, told chief of the Armenian community in Moldova Venera Gasparyan who is on visit to Armenia.

“There operate Armenian dance and song classes, the theatre faculty, and some others. We wear Armenian National Costume in classes,” she said.

The Armenian Sabbath-School aft. Mesrop Mashtots opened in Moldavian capital city of Chisinau on October 24 2009 providing the opportunity for Armenian Community members locally to meet and study Armenian subjects. Since before the only opportunity to learn Armenian was family ‘classes’.

“We are preparing to open a Sabbath-School in New Aneni where live 40 Armenian families and we already have 15 student applications. The classes will temporary be organized at general school until we open an Armenian Sabbath-School in New Aneni in the near future,” said Venera Gasparyan.

Chief of the Staff of the Ministry for Diaspora Affairs, Artak Zakaryan, provided the Sabbath-School with books, and CDs, and other necessary stuff for studding and learning Armenian subjects. But number of pupils increase, so these text-books are not enough, said Mrs. Gasparyan.