 Folk dance director and his wife, along with their friends, staged a wedding ceremony at the cathedral.On September 10–12, 2011 researchers of the Shirak Armenology Research Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia made a pilgrimage to the cathedral, where they performed scientific readings on history of Ani.In February 2020 a video appeared online in which a woman sang "meyhane" music on the "bema" of the cathedral while Pervin Ersoy, the wife of Mehmet Ersoy, Turkey's Minister of Culture and Tourism, was shown standing in the crowd and clapping.