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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.
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 ...
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.
With the onset of World War II, headquarters were moved to New York City, New York. With an annual international budget of over $47 million, [ 1 ] AGBU preserves and promotes the Armenian identity and heritage through educational , cultural and humanitarian programs, annually serving some 500,000 Armenians in over 30 countries.
St. Nersess Armenian Seminary is a seminary under the auspices of the Armenian Church of America, which is the American branch of the Armenian Apostolic Church. [1] Since 2015, it has been located in Armonk, New York and is the only Armenian theological seminary in the Western hemisphere.
Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Church is a significant Armenian Apostolic Church in Washington Heights, Manhattan, New York City at 580 West 187th Street. It occupies the former second location of the Lutheran church of The Lutheran Church of Our Saviour, established in 1897 as a mission church of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church and built in its second location at West 187th Street.
Since 1993, the Permanent Mission of Armenia to the United Nations is housed at 119 East 36th Street in Manhattan, New York.In 1993, the building was presented as a gift to the Government of Armenia by Kevork and Sirvart Hovnanian, members of the prominent Hovnanian family known as much for their construction business as their philanthropy in Armenia and the Diaspora.
In 1939 the organization launched its official publication the ARS Quarterly, which later became Hye Sird, and officially changed its name to the Armenian Relief Society. The relatively stable and self-sufficient state of Armenian communities, achieved during the third decade of the ARS, was again shaken, this time by the outbreak of the Second ...