Film: A film on the Palyan architects family is shot

Public Radio of Armenia

Aug 8 2017

12:57, 08 Aug 2017

Armradio

A film on the Palyans, an Armenian family of architects that worked in Ottoman Empire, is currently being shot with the support of the Ministry of Culture of Turkey. The director is Karo Babayan. The shooting is expected to be completed this year.

The Palyan family was a famous 18-19 centuries family of architects, artists and public figures from Kayseri. The main part of their architectural activity was implemented in Constantinople. Using the new tendencies of European architecture as well as Byzantine and Armenian traditions Palyans brought European features to the Turkish architecture by which the ways of its future development were defined in a certain degree. The Armenian origins of Palyans are usually kept silent about in Turkey.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS