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
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 Vank Cathedral, New Julfa district of 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 Canada 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

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See also

References

  1. ↑ April 24: Can we start over again?. Today's Zaman. Retrieved 3 June 2013
  2. ↑ Gezi Parkı'na Hrant Dink Parkı adını verelim, 1915'te katledilen Ermenilerin anısına yapılmış anıtı yeniden dikelim. Radikal. Retrieved 26 June 2013
  3. ↑ Monument to Armenian Genocide victims in Istanbul to be restored. LiveLeak. Retrieved 26 June 2013
  4. ↑ acam-france.org (ed.). "Monument du Génocide" (in French).
  5. ↑ armenian-genocide.org (ed.). "Memorial at Armenian Church of Montevideo, Uruguay".
  6. ↑ Memorial in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  7. ↑ Balakian, Peter (5 December 2008). "Bones". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 April 2009.
  8. ↑ acam-france.org (ed.). "Mémorial du Génocide" (in French).
  9. ↑ Comité de Défense de la Cause Arménienne, ed. (22 April 2005). "Marseille : pose de la première pierre du Mémorial du génocide arménien" (in French).
  10. ↑ (Armenian) Հայոց ցեղասպանության հուշարձան` ԱՄՆ Արիզոնա նահանգում

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