The Chairman of the “Nationalist Movement Party” Devlet Bahceli has decided to start parliamentary election campaign by uttering a prayer in Cathedral of Ani on October 1.

The MP made such a decision to counterbalance the liturgy in Surb Khach (Holy Cross), the Star newspaper reports.

It seems to the parliamentarian, who is ignorant of history, that the Armenian church, built in 1001, was built during the invasion of Halep Aslan in 1064. Interestingly, the sign on the church reads in Turkish language the church was built in 1001. It seems to the Turkish MP, he will say a prayer in the so-called Fetie mosque.

The Cathedral of Ani is an original pearl of Caucasian architecture. Ani was once the capital of a medieval Armenian kingdom that covered much of present day Armenia and eastern Turkey.

The Cathedral was founded by the order of King Smbat II and was completed under the patronage of the wife of King Gagik I, Queen Katranide. The cathedral was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin. The talented architect Trdat completed the building of the Catholicosal palace and the Mother Cathedral of Ani.