PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr. Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E- mail: [email protected]
Web:
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Armenian version:
THE CATHOLICOSATE’S PROJECT OF FUNDING HOUSING COMPLEXES NEARS COMPLETION
The social service initiative of the Catholicosate of Cilicia to provide
housing for the public will be completed in a few months. The last building
of the project is being constructed in Fanar and it is the second of its
type in the region.
His Holiness Aram I and members of the Cilician Brotherhood visited the
construction site and the newly built apartments on June 3.
“We launched this project giving a tangible expression to our church’s
social service activities. These apartments will soon be completed; their
reasonable prices aim at encouraging our new generation. On this occasion,
we also encourage all our dioceses to included housing projects in their
social service activities. We are also happy to affirm that some dioceses
have already taken successful steps on this direction,” His Holiness said.
Leading architects Hratch Markarian and Haroutioun Nazaretian, as well as
the chancellor of the Catholicosate of Cilicia, Khatchig Dedeian, gave
detailed information about the construction to His Holiness.
The two three-storey buildings contain ground-floor apartments that open up
to small gardens, big and small apartments, as well as duplex apartments.
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The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is one of the two Catholicosates of
the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the history and
the mission of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of
the Catholicosate, The Cilician Catholicosate, the
administrative center of the church is located in Antelias, Lebanon.