List of Armenian Genocide memorials
A number of organizations, museums, and monuments are intended to serve as memorials to the Armenian Genocide and its over 1 million victims.
List
The following table shows the major memorials around the world dedicated to the memory of the Armenian Genocide victims.
Image | Memorial | Location | Date |
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Huşartsan Memorial (Turkish: Taksim Ermeni Soykırımı Anıtı) | Taksim Square, Allied-occupied Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey) | 1919–1922[1][2][3] | |
Memorial Chapel | Armenian Catholicossate of Cilicia, Antelias, Lebanon | 1938 | |
Armenian Genocide Memorial | Kolkata, West Bengal, India | 1965 | |
Memorial khachkar | Etchmiadzin Cathedral compound, Vagharshapat, Armenia | 1965 | |
Armenian Genocide Memorial | Watertown, Massachusetts, United States | 1965 | |
Armenian Genocide Memorial | Bikfaya, Lebanon | 1965 | |
Tsitsernakaberd (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute) | Yerevan, Armenia | 1967 | |
Montebello Genocide Memorial | Montebello, California, United States | 1968 | |
Marseille Genocide Memorial (avenue du Prado) | Marseilles, France | 1973[4] | |
Armenian Genocide Memorial | Saint Sarkis Cathedral, Tehran, Iran | 1973 | |
Armenian Genocide Memorial | Holy Savior Cathedral, New Julfa, Isfahan, Iran | 1975 | |
Armenian Martyrs Memorial | St. Nerses Shnorhali Church, Montevideo, Uruguay | 1975[5] | |
Armenian Genocide memorial | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | 1980s[6] | |
Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex | Der Zor, Syria | 1990-2014 | |
Armenian Genocide Monument | Nicosia, Cyprus | 1990 | |
Armenian Genocide memorial | Cathedral of the Forty Martyrs, Aleppo, Syria | 28 May 1991 | |
Armenian Genocide Monument on Mt. Davidson | San Francisco, California, United States | 1997 | |
Armenian Genocide Memorial | Marcelin-Wilson Park, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | 1998 | |
Armenian Martyrs Memorial | Providence, Rhode Island, United States | 1999 | |
Holy Resurrection Church (site of mass grave in the Syrian desert discovered in the early 90s)[7] |
Margadeh village, Syria | 1999 | |
Mother Arising Out of the Ashes, memorial statue | Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Park, Yerevan, Armenia | 2002 | |
Memorial to Père Komitas and victims of the Armenian Genocide | Jardin D'Erevan, Paris, France | 2003 | |
Marseille Genocide Memorial (avenue du 24 avril 1915) | Marseille, France | 2006[8][9] | |
Armenian Martyrs Memorial on the grounds of Saints Vartanantz Armenian Orthodox Church | Chelmsford, Massachusetts, United States | 2005 | |
Khachkar in Nelson-Mandela-Park | Bremen, Germany | 2005 | |
Lyon Armenian Genocide Memorial | Lyon, France | 2006 | |
Armenian Genocide Memorial | Larnaca, Cyprus | 2008 | |
Armenian Heritage Park | Boston, Massachusetts, United States | 2012 | |
Genocidemonument | Almelo, the Netherlands | 2014 | |
Armenian Genocide Monument | California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California | 2015 | |
- A memorial khatchkar at the Armenian Catholic Patriarchate in Bzoummar, Lebanon (1960)
- The Armenian Genocide Monument in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1985)
- Relief at the Armenian Catholic Patriarchate in Bzoummar, Lebanon (1993)
- The Armenian Monument in De Boskamp cemetery, Assen, Netherlands (24 April 2001)
- The Wales Genocide Memorial in Cardiff, Wales, (2007)
- The memorial monument in Mislata, Valencia, Spain (2010)
- The Memorial monument at the Saint Abgar Church, Scottsdale, Arizona (2011)[10]
- Armenian Genocide Museum of America, not yet opened
Gallery
- Inside the memorial chapel in Antelias: the remains of victims recovered from the Syrian desert
- Memorial khatchkar at the Armenian Catholic Patriarchate in Bzoummar, Lebanon (1960)
- Memorial at the Genocide complex in Deir ez-Zor, Syria. (1991)
- The Armenian Genocide museum at Der Zor, Syria.
- Relief at the Armenian Catholic Patriarchate in Bzoummar, Lebanon (1993)
- Memorial cross stone in Grenoble, France (1999)
- Memorial khatchkar at Saint Mary's Armenian Apostolic Church in Glendale, California (2000)
- Memorial monument in Romans-sur-Isère, France
- Memorial khatchkar (stone cross) in Whitinsville, Massachusetts
- Memorial cross stone in Boca Raton, Florida
- Memorial in Rosario, Argentina
- In 2010 was erected in Mislata (Valencia) in Spain the first monument commemorating the Armenian genocide. The sculpture, three meters high, is in the gardens of the Garden of Sendra, in the old town.
- For the 94th anniversary at the California State University, Northridge (2009)
- Armenian Martyrs Memorial - above view in Chelmsford, Massachusetts
- Memorial in the churchyard of St Sarkis, Kensington, the oldest Armenian church in the United Kingdom
See also
References
- ↑ April 24: Can we start over again?. Today's Zaman. Retrieved 3 June 2013
- ↑ Gezi Parkı'na Hrant Dink Parkı adını verelim, 1915'te katledilen Ermenilerin anısına yapılmış anıtı yeniden dikelim. Radikal. Retrieved 26 June 2013
- ↑ Monument to Armenian Genocide victims in Istanbul to be restored. LiveLeak. Retrieved 26 June 2013
- ↑ acam-france.org (ed.). "Monument du Génocide" (in French).
- ↑ armenian-genocide.org (ed.). "Memorial at Armenian Church of Montevideo, Uruguay".
- ↑ Memorial in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- ↑ Balakian, Peter (5 December 2008). "Bones". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 April 2009.
- ↑ acam-france.org (ed.). "Mémorial du Génocide" (in French).
- ↑ Comité de Défense de la Cause Arménienne, ed. (22 April 2005). "Marseille : pose de la première pierre du Mémorial du génocide arménien" (in French).
- ↑ (Armenian) Հայոց ցեղասպանության հուշարձան` ԱՄՆ Արիզոնա նահանգում
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