Սէյդաբադի Հայոց եկեղեցին եւ նշանաւոր մի քանի գերեզմանները
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2010
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The State of Bengal has had a unique meaning in the life of Armenians in India, who started to live there in the early 17th century before the British. By the mid-18th century, Armenians had become a very active merchant community in Bengal. At first they settled at Saidabad, a suburb of Murshidabad, and in 1665, by virtue of a royal Farman issued by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (1658-1707), they were granted a plot of land and were permitted to form a settlement.
In 1758 the Armenians built a church dedicated to St. Mary with money donated by Khoja Petros Arrathoon, a famous Armenian merchant and benefactor of the time.
The author reflects on the history of the Armenian Church and community of Saidabad, on the Armenian cemetery and quotes the lost inscription of the founding of the Church.
The author notes that Armenian tradesmen, clergymen and representatives of the community are buried in the Saidabad Church cemetery. The inscriptions of the gravestones of Mnatsakan Vardan, one of the founders of the Hayots Martasiragan Djemaran, of his wife Elizabeth and of three clergymen buried there are particularyl mentioned.
The article gives an account of the last caretakers of this Armenian Church, Matheos and Mary Carapiet, and their generous activities to preserve the church and the Armenian spirit as well as the legendary stories told about Matheos by the locals.
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Բաղումեան, Տ. սրկ., «Սէյդաբադի Հայոց եկեղեցին եւ նշանաւոր մի քանի գերեզմանները», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2010, Պէյրութ, էջ 553-566