The History of the
Armenian Evangelical Church

• The Evangelical spirit was born among Armenians by adoption and spreading Christianity, and was deepened by the Armenian Illuminators.

  Evangelism is a reformist movement in the Armenian reality. It represents the great awakening of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries not only in the religious, but also in moral, educational, cultural, social, and economic realms.

• The Armenian Evangelical Church was officially established on July 1, 1846 at Pera, Constantinople (now Istanbul).

• Indisputable and meritorious were the useful duties of the Armenian Evangelical Church for the nation (Western and Eastern Armenia) especially in the following spheres:

  * language (purification and dissemination of modern Armenian language),

  * educational (establishment of modern, stage by stage educational system),

  * publishing (secular and parochial publications, textbooks, periodicals),

  * music (popular, multiple voiced singing, and organ use in the churches),

  * family (female education, equalization of female and male rights),

  * youth (establishment of organizations),

  * mode of life (the refuse of alcohol, cigarette, gambling, dissolute and wasteful way of life),

  * charitable (orphan and nation-preserving mission during and after the Armenian Genocide), etc.

• In present the Armenian Evangelical Church in collaboration with the Mother Church is carrying out Christian, missionary, charitable, educational, publishing and other useful activities in behalf of Armenia, Karabagh, Diaspora and Mankind.
  
  

  Knarik Avakian
  
  Doctor of History
  Senior Researcher,
  Institute of History
  National Academy of Sciences
  Armenia
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