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Vagharshapat Travel Wiki Travel to Vagharshapat Armenia's fourth city, Vagharshapat (former Echmiadzin), was the capital from about 184 to 340 AD. It is a holy place for Armenians, owing to King Tiridates III's conversion to Christianity there in 300 AD. He had ordered a Christian virgin to be stoned to death, and subsequently went mad. A Christian prisoner named Gregory (later promoted to the title of Gregory the Illuminator) saved and converted him, and the whole country soon followed suit. Vagharshapat today is...