EVENTS COMMEMORATING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TO BE HELD IN ESTONIA

Pan Armenian News
21.04.2005 05:59

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Events commemorating Armenian Genocide in Ottoman
Turkey will be held in Tallinn April 24. As reported by abbot of
Tallinn Armenian church of St. Grigor Enlightener father Garnik,
April 24 midday a commemoration liturgy will be served, after which
flowers will be laid to the Khachkar (cross-stone) erected at the Tartu
highway. The same day evening, at 6:00 p.m. a male choir will perform
commemoration motets in Nigulite church. The Armenian community of
contemporary Estonia numbers some 2 thousand people, many of whom
participate in the activities of the Tallinn and Tartu associations
of the Armenian cultures. A Sunday school is available in the Tallinn
association, Tsitsernak (swallow) program telling about the life of
Armenians in Estonia is periodically broadcast by the State Radio.