On February 11/2021, the Armenian Cultural and Heritage Committee of the administration of the Holy Virgin Mary Armenian Orthodox Church in Zakho held an evening on the occasion of St. Vartan’s feast in the presence of the Father Masis Shahinian, pastor of the Virgin Mary Armenian Orthodox Church in Zakho, and Mr. Vahik Saranian, member of Kurdistan Regional Parliament, and the  Committee members the Armenian Orthodox Church in Zakho and a number of members of the community. The evening included a welcoming speech delivered by Mr. Daoud Marderosian, Chairman of the Church’s Administrative Committee, and then a lecture on Saint Vartan given by the Father Masis Shahinian, and then songs and poems delivered by members of the Armenian Cultural and Heritage Committee, and after that a closing speech and thanks by the architect Vartanush Margossian, the responsible of the Cultural Committee. By distributing gifts in the form of a memorial shield to Saint Vartan to the persons bearing the name Vartan.