Situated in the mountains, near the capital of Geghard and Garni, they can charm even the most layman. The visit to Geghard stuck in my memory mainly due to the performance of local artists singing church songs in the dark scenery of Gavit. In turn, the pre-Christian temple in Garni, built in the 1st century AD and dedicated to the sun deity of Mithra, resembled the monuments of Greece more than of Armenia, and the classic, Hellenistic shape of the building with colonnades and a triangular pediment evoked associations with the Acropolis.