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 [...]
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27 February 2009
Bangladesh’s Last Armenian Prays For Unlikely Future
29 November 2008
Church of the Holy Resurrection
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. [...]
