About

Armat Atlas is a spatial archive of Armenian heritage — open, rigorous, and built to last.

Highland landscape
Mission

Hold memory in place.

Armat Atlas documents Armenian places — sacred, civic, ancient, and modern — and grounds them back in the geography they came from, so memory and landscape stay connected.

Vision

A place that cannot be erased.

We are building a permanent, open reference for Armenian history and culture — accessible to anyone, anywhere, and impossible to quietly disappear.

The challenge

Memory is scattered — and fragile.

Fragmented heritage

Sites are spread across borders, politically contested, and often physically threatened.

Scattered information

Records live in books, museums, oral histories, and personal archives, rarely connected to place.

Limited access

The diaspora and younger generations have few ways to walk through their own heritage.

No shared platform

There is no single open, spatial reference dedicated specifically to Armenian heritage.

What the atlas holds

A wide-angle archive of the Armenian world.

Churches and monasteries
Cathedrals and chapels
Khachkars and stone crosses
Ancient settlements and capitals
Cultural and civic landmarks
Memorials and remembrance sites
Diaspora communities
Archaeological sites
Destroyed and endangered places
Principles

What guides the work.

Open and decentralised

The platform belongs to the community that builds it.

Historically rigorous

Every entry is built on citations and traceable sources.

Spatial truth

History is connected to authentic geography, not abstracted from it.

Community-powered

Scholars, locals, and the diaspora shape the archive together.

Forward-facing

Designed for the web, extended reality, and what comes after.

Preservation-first

Counter-erasure through documented truth and digital memory.