EVENTS COMMEMORATING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TO BE HELD IN ESTONIA

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.