11111The Holy Trinity Armenian church was consecrated in 1797, being built on the foundations of another Armenian wooden church dated 1560, dedicated to “St. Auxentius”, which initially functioned as a monastery. Grigore Goilav has found a record of the latter in a document from 1710, therefore deducing that the Holy Trinity church was built in its place. We also find the name “St. Oxend” in 1647 in a book about the ordination by Bishop Anton Serebkoient, when he ordained Lusik, son of Ter Hovhannes, as cleric and, at the same time, he spoke about Easter at “«St. Oxend» church”.
11111The Holy Trinity church is located only several tens of meters from the Saint Mary Armenian church, which proves the size and importance of the Armenian local colony.
11111On the frontispiece of the left door of the church the following inscription is written: “The holy cruciform church was established in the city of Botosani being dedicated to the «Holy Trinity», by Oxend, son of Anton Kheulian, in the times of S. S. Ghaucas, Catholicos of all Armenians, with the efforts and under the surveillance of Ter Melkon Dresu from Roman, the holy church being dedicated to the memory of the seven ancestors. September 1st, 1795.”
11111At the restoration of 1832 the exonarthex was extended and a sacristy was added. The historian Nicolae Iorga described the two Armenian places of worship in Botoșani, St. Mary church and Holy Trinity church, as “two great monuments, beautiful and powerful stone buildings”. The entry is through a porch with arch, with pillars, where a spiral staircase also exists that provides access to the steeple. The entry into the narthex is made through a semicircle arch. One the both sides of the nave there are two small altars. The entry into them is made through doors with arches in the wall. The church bell tower build by A. Taft in 1816 was the highest observation tower of the city of Botoșani. This is also an architectural monument of national heritage.
11111In the yard there is a cemetery with many funerary monuments of great historical and artistic value, with inscriptions in Armenian language, many of them brought from Constantinople.
11111Nowadays, the Holy Trinity church is in conservation because of the collapse of the dome in 1991.