Vardavar is a pagan holiday that, according to Armenian studies, was associated with the worship of the goddess Astghik and Anahit, New Year-Navasard. In early July, after completing basic fieldwork and gathering grain, it was a custom to organize a large celebration, blessing and sacrificing the field-sponsoring forces. Thus, one of the necessary manifestations of the feast was to make bouquets of oxen and even to carry nests to the gods, giving thanks to the gods who helped to grow that ear, lamb sacrifices near the water's springs, in the sanctuaries pleading with the spirits of the water, honoring the forces that provide the water needed for field work. Mihran Tumajan found that the Vardavar celebration of St. Karapet is a continuation of the old Zoroastrian Vardavar.

On the 14th Sunday after Easter, varying from June 28 to August 1