The Armenia Church is Apostolic, not Orthodox. And has a Catholicos not a Patriarch. One day I’ll get asked this in a pub quiz. For a culture that is so Mt Ararat obsessed they unsurprisingly believe themselves to be the descendants of a son of Noah.

The Catholicos is the head of the whole world wide Armenian Church. Like the Pope. And a I saw him which was pretty cool. He looks as much like a beardy wizard as you might imagine.

The main cathedral – the Armenian Vatican – Echmiadizin, is lovely and weird. Sitting in a huge complex of lovely weird things. A lot of trippy 60/70’s monuments representing different things about the genocide, donated by diaspora people. A lot of it looks like props from Lord of the Rings.

There are hundreds of noisy diaspora tourists with selfie sticks. In the church. During the service. So strange.

Most of the churches here look like the one Cersei blew up only much much smaller. And grey.