Republic Square (Armenian: Հանրապետության հրապարակ Hanrapetutyan Hraparak, formerly Lenin Square (Armenian: Լենինի հրապարակ)) is the big central town square in Yerevan, Armenia. It is intersected by Amiryan Street, Abovian Street, Nalbandian Street, and Tigran Mets Street.
The square has a stone pattern in the center, meant to look like a traditional Armenian rug from above. The square has a large fountain in front of the National Art Gallery and History Museum, it has the Marriott Hotel, the Foreign Ministry, a post office and other establishments around it.
This is the center of Yerevan, where ceremonies and meetings are held and through which processions pass on highdays and holidays. The statue of Lenin used to be located in here, but when Armenia regained its independence, it was brought down and replaced with a large TV monitor in its place.
The clock of the Governemnt building on the Republic square was made in Moscow. In July 1941 was transferred to Yerevan. The diameter of the clock is 4 meter, the length of the big arrow is 188 cm, the length of the small arrow is 170 cm. The precision of the clock is big, in 24 hours only 2–3 seconds.