By Leonard M Apcar, International Herald Tribune
Today, there are only a few hundred Armenians in the entire Kolkata region…
Before there were call centres and Indian conglomerates, before the East India Company or the British Raj, there were Armenians who made their way to India to trade and to escape religious persecution from the Turks and, [...]
Dec. 15th, 2008 at 5:07 PM
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Это продолжение темы: Церковь Григория Просветителя в Сингапуре
После написания поста Սուրբ Գրիգոր Լուսաւորիչի Եկեղեցի об армянской церкви в Сингапуре меня заинтересовало, как армяне попали в Сингапур и как они там жили. С помощью интернета удалось найти довольно интересные материалы.
“Процветавшие в Индии армянские купцы оказали большие услуги в утверждении здесь британской Ост-Индской компании, взамен британцы [...]
Bangladesh’s Last Armenian Prays For Unlikely Future
By Shafiq Alam, AFP
Michael Joseph Martin is guarded about his exact age and reluctant to accept he will be the last in a long line of Armenians to make a major contribution to the history of Bangladesh.
Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, was once home to thousands of migrants from the [...]
As yet no evidence of Armenian activity has been found in connection with Armenian Street. The Armenians in fact worshipped at St. Gregory’s at Bishop Street, formerly located between King Street and Penang Street.
The Armenian Church of Penang was founded in 1822, more than a decade before the one in Singapore. In 1937, the church [...]
History
Armenians had trading relations with several parts of India, and by the 7th century a few Armenian settlements had appeared in Kerala, an Indian state located on the Malabar Coast. Armenians controlled a large part of the international trade of the area, particularly in precious stones and quality fabrics.
An archive directory (published 1956) in Delhi, [...]
Within the Persian Empire, Armenians were deported in large numbers to New Julfa, on the outskirts of Isfahan, early in the seventeenth century. Many pushed on to India and Southeast Asia in the eighteenth century, as conditions turned against them. Found chiefly in Burma, the Malay peninsula (particularly Penang and Malacca), and Java, Armenians were [...]
The last of the Armenians in Dhaka, Bangladesh
[September 01, 2008]
Dyuti Monishita follows the trail of Dhaka’s Armenian Church and unravels the history of the community of Armenian traders who settled on the banks of the Buriganga before the rise of British India.
Michael Joseph Martin (Mikel Housep Martirossian) is possibly the last Armenian living in Dhaka. [...]
The History
The Armenian Church of St. Gregory the Illuminator is the first Christian church built in Singapore in 1835. Designed by Irish architect, George D. Coleman, it is considered as one of his masterpieces.
As the number of Armenian families was growing in the early 1830s due to business prospects in Southeast Asia, a place [...]
