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Rev. Raphaël Minassian was appointed to the mission in Los Angeles in 1989, taking up residence at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs. He began to plan a new church in Glendale. Minassian acquired a Lutheran church on Mountain Street in 1997. The building was renovated so the Armenian rite liturgy could be celebrated.
Montebello (Los Angeles area) Holy Cross Cathedral ( Armenian Apostolic Church ) (Oriental Orthodox Communion) 34°01′17″N 118°06′22″W / 34.0214661°N 118.1061242°W / 34.0214661; -118.1061242 ( Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Cathedral, Montebello, California
In 2012, the eparchy moved from New York City to Glendale, California. [3] The church in New York was being sold and while the eparchy was offered a new church, the bishop decided to move the eparchy to Glendale since there were more Armenian Catholic families in the area than in New York. [3]
The first Armenian families began to settle in the Los Angeles area starting in the late 19th century. Aram Yeretzian, a social worker and Protestant Christian minister who wrote a 1923 University of Southern California thesis on the Armenians of Los Angeles, stated that the first Armenian in Los Angeles arrived in around 1900.
Montebello (Los Angeles area) Holy Cross Cathedral ( Armenian Apostolic Church ) (Oriental Orthodox Communion) 34°01′17″N 118°06′22″W / 34.0214661°N 118.1061242°W / 34.0214661; -118.1061242 ( Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Cathedral, Montebello, California
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an Armenian church dating back almost 2,000 years, making it the oldest structure of its kind in the country and one of the oldest in the world.
Little Armenia (Armenian: Փոքր Հայաստան, romanized: P’vok’r Hayastan) is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. It is named after the Armenians who escaped genocide and made their way to Los Angeles during the early part of the 20th century. [1]
A ‘very unique’ idea for Old Armenian Town. The council’s decision is binding, and construction on Hye Court Project is scheduled to begin within 90 days.