Manas was appointed choirmaster of Գողթան երգչախումբ (The Choir of Goghtn) of the Armenian patriarchal church in Istanbul, where he served for twenty years until 1957.
Mesrop Mashtots', the inventor of the Armenian alphabet, is assumed to have lived and worked in the town of Msrvanis (Mesropavan) during his stay in Goght'n.
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