Tsitsernakaberd

The Armenian genocide memorial complex on a hill overlooking Yerevan, built in the 1960s to commemorate the victims of the mass killings of 1915. A tall cleft stele reaches skyward beside a circle of twelve leaning basalt slabs sheltering an eternal flame. Beside the monument a museum set partly underground documents the events through photographs, documents and testimonies. Every year on 24 April crowds climb the hill to lay flowers around the flame, making the site a central place of national mourning and remembrance.