AMAZING WOODEN
DOOR--to many; and a painful history for many others.
Armenian handmade art work, this door dated 1312 A.D. used to be the door of the Sourp Garabed Church in the Armenian City of Mush - Western Armenia. Present day Turkey.
Currently, the door is part of a private collection in
Canada. As to how and why, a piece of the Armenian National Treasures, was
looted - sold and bought ...?
In the year 1976 The German Artist Rikhter buys the door
from his Turkish neighbor who had it in his position. A year prior, the Turkish
neighbor had discovered the door in a neighborhood populated by Kurds in Mush,
and had the door transported to Istanbul. Once in Rikhter's posession, he
arranges for the door to be transported to Germany with the help of his
connections at the German Embassy in Istanbul.... however, in 1996, after
Richter passed away The Armenian Historic Sourp Garabed Church door showed up
at an Auction in London and sold for $50000. The rest is history....
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