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Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:25:00 +0100

Kayseri Armenian Church is considered to be active/ open both by the Armenian Patriarch's Office in Istanbul and Turkish Authorities, together with few other armenian churches in parts of Turkey other than Istanbul.
The church in Kayseri can be visited and you can pray there self. Sometimes, the guard is not there, so you have to make an appointment.
Kayseri Armenian Community is very small-approximately 10-15 armenians in Kayseri. There is no priest employed there. But a couple of times a year the groups from Istanbul-maybe 100-200 people come to the church with the armenian priests
and they have their masses there.
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Sivas( Sabestia) and Malatya have bigger armenian communities but the churches there are closed. Ankara Armenians are a big group-appr.1000-1.200 in Ankara. Strangely they do not have an armenian church, but majority of them uses the French Catholic Church in Ulus. Elazig/ Harput Community uses the Syriac Church.
Best Regards

Sinan Tortum

In response to:ARMENIAN CHURCH IN KAYSERI, TURKEY

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:02:10 +0100

That is very interesting. Are there any Armenians using he church these days as a place of worship in Kayseri?

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