Curatorial description (Accessed: 6 August 2021)
From 1840, the Jews of Erivan Province were represented by two communities, an Ashkenazim and a Sephardim one. The former had a praying house (shul), while the latter had a Sheik Mordecai synagogue active from 1860 where the Iranian language was in use along with Hebrew, and worshippers sat the Iranian style during prayers. The Jews in Armenia were actively occupied in commerce and various crafts.
The photograph was displayed at the Russian Ethnographic Exhibition of 1867 in Moscow.
