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My reaction to the idea of “unveiling” is probably similar to yours: how do you unveil a church?  And why would a church need unveiling?  We will find that out together, but first, let’s recount the story, the recent history, of Haytagh Village and its inhabitants.  As I write this, the members of the expedition, myself included, are sitting around a table with the first inhabitants of Haytagh Village, the extended Kyureghian family.  To my left sits Sarhat Petrossian, a PhD from the Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction, Artak Kyureghian, whose house we are in, and his father Razmik Hopar (the 73-year-old elder of the family) of Haytagh, Gagik (Gago) Markosyan, professor of Geophysics at the Yerevan State University, and his son Hrach, Atom, Razmik Hopar’s son and the one who discovered the Church fortuitously while hunting in the winter of 1999, and Stepan Nalbandyan, an architect who knows and is in love with practically every khatchkar and church in Armenia and Karabakh, the organizer of our expedition.