Mount Ararat with the historic Khor Virap monastery visible at center-left

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In 405 AD, monk Mesrop Mashtots invented the Armenian alphabet — not as a cultural project but as a deliberate Christian mission. Before Mashtots, Armenians had no written language, meaning the Bible existed only in Greek or Syriac, unintelligible to ordinary believers. The 36 letters he devised were specifically engineered to render Armenian phonology with precision, enabling Scripture to reach every speaker for the first time.

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In 405 AD, monk Mesrop Mashtots invented the Armenian alphabet — not as a cultural project but as a deliberate Christian mission. Before Mashtots, Armenians had no written language, meaning the Bible existed only in Greek or Syriac, unintelligible to ordinary believers. The 36 letters he devised were specifically engineered to render Armenian phonology with precision, enabling Scripture to reach every speaker for the first time. 

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