Most scholars accept the 1905 reconstruction by Toros Toramanian, who worked on the original excavations, and proposed that the building had three floors.
The interior of the mosaic-decorated church had the shape of a Greek cross or tetraconch, with an aisle encircling thisarea, while the exteriorwas a 32-sided polygon which appeared circular from a distance.
Together withchurches in Vagharshapat (Etchmiadzin), Zvartnots was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2000.
A drawing of the cathedral was depicted on the first issue of 100 AMD banknotes and its model can be seen in Yerevan History Museum.