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  • AGMM: HH Karekin II Blesses Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial

    Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial, Inc.
    1140 19th Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036
    Phone: 202-383-9009, Web: www.armenian-genocide.org


    PRESS RELEASE
    October 15, 2007
    CONTACT: Rouben Adalian
    Phone: (202) 383-9009
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Web: www.armenian-genocide.org


    HIS HOLINESS KAREKIN II BLESSES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
    MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL


    To view photo go to:
    http://www.aaainc.org/fileadmin/ANI/Catholicos _3_01.jpg

    Washington, October 10, 2007-On an historic day for the
    Armenian-American community, as the House Foreign Affairs Committee
    debated the Armenian Genocide resolution, His Holiness Karekin II,
    Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, blessed the house in
    which the Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial will be opened in
    Washington. "May God bless your endeavor and bring the project you have
    started to a happy conclusion," said His Holiness, shown with Archbishop
    Khajak Barsamian of the Diocese of the Armenian Church, Hirair
    Hovnanian, Chairman of the Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial Board
    of Trustees, and Van Krikorian, Chairman of the AGMM Building and
    Operations Committee.

    To view photo go to:
    http://www.aaainc.org/fileadmin/ANI/Catholicos _4_01.jpg

    Washington, October 10, 2007- On a day that started with His Holiness
    Karekin II delivering the opening prayer in the House of Representatives
    and ended with the favorable vote in the House Foreign Affairs Committee
    which referred the Armenian Genocide resolution to the floor, the
    Armenian Catholicos also stopped at the landmark Washington building
    which is being converted into the Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial.
    In remarks upon the conclusion of the blessing of the house service, His
    Holiness said: "I bring my appreciation for your efforts to memorialize
    the victims of the Armenian Genocide." Standing with the Catholicos are
    Near East Foundation Board of Directors Chairman Shant Mardirossian,
    Armenian Genocide Museum and Memorial Building and Operations Committee
    member Zaven Tachdjian, His Eminence Archbishop Khajak Barsamian of the
    Diocese of the Armenian Church, AGMM Board of Trustees Chairman Hirair
    Hovnanian, AGMM Committee Chairman Van Krikorian, former chairwoman of
    the Armenian Assembly of America Board of Directors Annie Totah, and
    former chairman of the Armenian Assembly of America Board of Directors
    Peter Vosbikian.


    Photo courtesy Naltchayan Photography
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