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The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute opened in 1995 on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the genocide. The structure of the museum, planned by architects Sashur Kalashian, Lyudmila Mkrtchyan and sculptor F. Araqelyan, has followed a unique design.
Armenian Genocide Memorial Lebanon Bikfaya: 1965 Tsitsernakaberd (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute) Armenia Yerevan: 1967 Montebello Genocide Memorial: United States Montebello, California: 1968 Marseille Genocide Memorial (avenue du Prado) France: Marseilles: 1973 [4] Armenian Genocide Memorial Iran: Saint Sarkis Cathedral, Tehran: 1973 ...
The Armenian Genocide Museum will be housed in the former National Bank of Washington building, built in 1926 with a historic Interior and located on the southeast corner of 14th and G Streets, N.W., in downtown Washington, D.C. The building was purchased for $7.25 million, in addition to four more adjacent properties, costing a total of $20 ...
Tsitsernakaberd is the official memorial to the Armenian genocide victims in Yerevan, Armenia.It was opened in 1967 after a mass demonstration that took place in Yerevan on April 24, 1965, on the 50th anniversary of the deportation of hundreds of Armenian intellectuals from Constantinople that marked the beginning of the genocide.
Charents Museum of Literature and Arts [5] Cafesjian Center for the Arts [6] ARF History Museum; Erebuni Museum of the Erebuni Fortress [7] Modern Art Museum of Yerevan; Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute [8] Dzitoghtsyan Museum of National Architecture; Zoological Museum-Institute; Natural History Museum of Armenia; Geological Museum after H ...
Estimates of the number of Armenians who perished vary widely, with historians offering a range of about 700,000 to 1.2 million.
The Armenian genocide [a] was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced Islamization of others, primarily women and children.
There is an Armenian genocide memorial in Yerevan that is located on a hill to the west overlooking the city called Tsitsernakapert. Its construction started in 1966 after 1 million Armenians demonstrated in Yerevan on the 50th anniversary of the genocide. The construction of the monument was completed in 1968.