ARMENIAN SPRING FESTIVAL 

May 12, 2012 – From 11 AM To 6 PM

7000 Park Road, Charlotte NC 28210

A GREAT FAMILY EVENT!!!

FREE Admission

Saint Sarkis Armenian Church invites you to come and enjoy authentic Armenian food, music, artifacts, history and a guided tour of the Church at our spring event. 

 The kids will enjoy romping in the Noah’s Ark “Air Castle”.

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St. Sarkis celebrated Easter Badarak on Sunday, April 24th followed by a Parish luncheon in Acopian Hall.

We were pleased to have more then seventy five people with us for lunch as well as a musical program by Julia Pogosova, Maria Amiryan and Sarkis Chorbajian.

A moment of silence was observed in recognition of the April 24th Genocide, and St. Sarkis was open all day on April 25th for those who… [Continue...]

Sunday, December 19th St. Sarkis celebrated the Christmas Holiday with Parish Christmas Event that included the children’s Pageant presentation, directed by Sylvie Yessayan,  and then Parish luncheon in the Acopian Hall. Over eighty people were in attendance that enjoyed the meal while listening Christmas music and songs; the children had an excellent time with the arrival of Santa Claus and the distribution of the gifts.

Sunday, September 12th, 2010 was a joyous and memorable day for St. Sarkis Church, Charlotte NC  parishioners.

The generous donation of Zaven and Ray Touloukian made it possible to have a second stained glass window for the Church, thus making the Sanctuary more mystical and beautiful.  Zaven and Ray are no strangers in the Charlotte community.  Years ago their generous donation tipped the balance for the purchase of the… [Continue...]

Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Primate of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern), ordained Dn. Leon Khoja-Eynatyan to the holy priesthood last weekend at St. Mary Church of Washington, D.C.

The two-day ceremony began on Saturday evening, July 10. Dn. Leon knelt before the altar in a traditional calling service that symbolizes a deacon’s formal presentation to the… [Continue...]

“Requiem and Resurrection,” a concert of remembrance on the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, was held in the sanctuary of New York’s St. Vartan Cathedral on Friday, April 23, as part of the Diocese’s commemoration of the milestone.

Some 800 people gathered for the event, including Ambassador Garen Nazarian, Armenia’s representative to the United Nations, along with other dignitaries and diplomats from U.N. member nations.

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Light of the World

THE ROMAN EMPIRE OF THE FIRST CENTURY was an entity of many glories: arguably mankind’s greatest political achievement to that time. Yet when we remember it today, we are transfixed by its cruelty and disregard for life; its mask of civility hiding a darker truth.

Ordinarily, this truth would have been left in the shadows of history. But something exposed it, illuminated it. What… [Continue...]

His Holiness Karekin II, the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, traveled to Jerusalem on Monday, February 15, where he presented His Beatitude Archbishop Torkom Manoogian, the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, with the “Medal of St. Mesrob Mashdots.”
Accompanying His Holiness were Archbishop Navasart Kjoyan, Primate of the Araratian Pontifical Diocese in Yerevan, Armenia, and Bishop Arshak Khachatrian, Chancellor of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin.
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