Armenian Surb Khach Monastery will become a section of Crimean Ethnographic Museum since December 1, 2009. Such statement was made by Anatoliy Hrytsenko, the Speaker of Crimean Verkhovna Rada, Analitika.at.ua e-source informs.

NEWS.am intends to get official comments on the matter from Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II.

Armenian Surb Khach Monastery (Holy Cross) is a national monument, which was a center of pilgrimage and spiritual attraction for ages. A number of Armenian cultural workers lived and worked here at different times.

Serzh Sargsyan was on a visit to Ukraine in 2008 to participate in celebration of Surb Khach Monastery 650th anniversary. In the frames of his visit he also met with his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko.