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This category includes articles related to the culture and history of Armenian Americans in New York City. Pages in category "Armenian-American culture in New York City" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The first Armenian to hold a high position office was Republican Steven Derounian, a Bulgarian-born Armenian, represented New York from 1953 to 1965 in the House of Representatives. [203] George Deukmejian became the Republican governor of California in 1983 and left the office in 1991.
Beyond the national headquarters of the ANCA located in Washington, there are two regional offices in New York City and Los Angeles, and more than fifty local chapters and thousands of activists, [2] it is cooperating with a large web of regional Armenian National Committees (or Armenian Cause/Hay Tad Offices) in Armenia, Russia, France, the ...
This is a list of notable Armenian Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.Armenian Americans are people born or raised in the United States, or who reside there, with origins in the country known as Armenia, which ranges from the Caucasian mountain range to the Armenian plateau.
In 2006, the AGBU celebrated its centenary in its headquarters in New York City. [1] The Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) was founded on April 15, 1906, in Cairo, Egypt, by the initiative of renowned national figure Boghos Nubar, son of Nubar Pasha (three times prime minister of Egypt) [2] and other prominent representatives of the ...
The strength of the Armenian lobby can be derived from its concentration in a few congressional districts, such as California's 30th congressional district. [11] In the 2000 census, one-third of the Armenian-American community lived in just 5 districts of the 106th Congress. Half of all Armenian-Americans lived in just 20 congressional district ...
St. Nersess Armenian Seminary was an idea of Archbishop Tiran Nersoyan, who served as the first dean. [3] [4] Nersoyan felt that the then 19 priests in the Armenian Church in America could hardly support the more than 30 parishes and first proposed a seminary in America in 1947.
St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral (Armenian: Սուրբ Վարդան Մայր Տաճար) in New York City is the first cathedral of the Armenian Apostolic Church to be constructed in North America. [1] It is located in New York City on the corner of Second Avenue and 34th Street and was built to resemble the Saint Hripsime Church in Etchmiadzin ...