St. Elias and St. Gregory

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St. Elias and St. Gregory Cathedral by night (2010)

The Cathedral of Saints Elias and Saint Gregory the Illuminator ( Armenian Սուրբ Եղիա - Սուրբ Գրիգոր Լուսաւորիչ եկեղեցի Surp Krikor yev Surp Eghia ) is the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Armenian Catholic Church . It is located in the Debbas district of downtown Beirut, the Lebanese capital .

The church building was erected in 1928 as the new seat of the Armenian Catholic Church after all Armenian Catholics in Turkey had either been murdered by Muslims or deported as a result of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire . The financing of the new building was provided by Pope Pius XI. made; it is the cathedra of the Patriarchate of Cilicia . Until then, this had its seat in Constantinople (since 1930 Istanbul).

The St. Elias and St. Gregory Cathedral, reminiscent of historical buildings, differs somewhat from traditional Armenian architecture and contains artistic elements from Rome . The arrangement of the two eponymous saints Elias and Gregory in the name of the cathedral is not officially established.

Web links

Commons : St. Elias and St. Gregory  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicola Migliorino, (Re) constructing Armenia in Lebanon and Syria: Ethno-cultural diversity and the state in the aftermath of a refugee crisis in the Google book search, Berghahn Books, 2008, ISBN 1-84545-352-2 , p. 51.
  2. ↑ Soorp Kreekor yev Soorp Eghia, Beirut, Lebanon (Armenian). In: www.gcatholic.org. Retrieved June 10, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Rouben Paul Adalian, Historical Dictionary of Armenia in the Google Book Search, 2nd ed, Scarecrow Press, 2010, ISBN 0-8108-6096-1 , p. 103.

Coordinates: 33 ° 53 ′ 34.6 "  N , 35 ° 30 ′ 27.3"  E