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Hachikian Brothers Renovate Village Church in Memory of Their Father
Residents of Lernanist village in Armenia’s Kotayk province gathered last fall for the consecration of a newly renovated 19th-century church. The renovation was made possible by two deacons in the Boston area who carried out the project in memory of their late father, Krikor Hachikian.
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Good on them! More efforts like these should be undertaken by diaspora Armenians.
You mean more church renovations and constructions at the expense of actual investments?
No, you mean that because to you it is an either/or situation. I do not find the two to be mutually exclusive. Moreover, the soul needs nourishment as well. While the Armenian Church was not as badly affected by Communist rule as the other Churches of the USSR, it nonetheless, suffered and still needs to be brought to its pre-Bolshevik Revolution and pre-Genocide greatness.
The should renovate instead of building new ones