Armash Monastery
The Armash Monastery ( Armenian Արմաշի վանք ) was an Armenian Apostolic Monastery near Nicomedia (now İzmit in Turkey ). It was built in 1611 by Armenians who fled the Celali uprisings and existed until the Armenian genocide in 1915/17.
A theological seminary, which was the only Armenian seminary in Western Anatolia , was run right next to the Armash monastery. It was founded and directed at the initiative of Patriarch Horen I. Achekian (1888–1894). a. by the deans Malachia Ormanian , later Patriarch of Constantinople and Yeghic Tourian , later Patriarch of Jerusalem . Until its closure in 1916, the seminary trained around 300 students (including 36 vartabeds ). Among all the secondary schools in the country, the Armash Seminary was considered the most outstanding Armenian institution in the Ottoman Empire .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael B. Papazian: The Armenian Church. (No longer available online.) Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America, archived from the original August 17, 2013 ; Retrieved September 25, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Zaven Der Yeghiayan : My Patriarchal Memoirs , p. 263.
- ^ Louise Nalbandian: The Armenian Revolutionary Movement: The Development of Armenian Political Parties Through the Nineteenth Century . University of California Press, Berkeley 1963, ISBN 978-0-520-00914-1 , pp. 50 .
