 In April 2018 Necmettin Alp, director of the Kars Museum, stated that restoration works on the cathedral would start later that month.In 1989 a series of events under the title "The Glory of Ani" commemorating the millennium of the Cathedral of Ani took place in the United States, sponsored by the Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America.A symposium took place at the New-York Historical Society on October 21, 1989.