With the blessing of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, the Publishing Department of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin has released the book “Religious and Cultural Life and in Van-Vaspurakan Attempt to Establish Statehood (1908-18)” by Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor Avetis Harutyunyan. The publication is dedicated to the 100^th anniversary of the restoration of Armenian statehood and the declaration of the First Republic of Armenia.

As reported the Information System of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin to Hayern Aysor, the book presents the history of Van-Vaspurakan in 1908-18, church and cultural life, as well as the liberation struggle and the attempts to establish statehood.

The book has been published with a donation from the Sarkis Gabrielian Foundation.