sentences:  In the beginning of the 20th century there were as many as 30 Armenian churches in Tbilisi.Armenian Norashen Church, an architectural monument from 1701 is in ruins.The walls of Norashen, which means "new construction", had been decorated by the frescoes of Hovnatan Hovnatanian, the court painter of Georgian King Heraclius II, but are now being lost to decay.