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ARMENIAN CHAPEL- 192ND HISTORIC BUILDING OF STOKHOLM
ARMENPRESS
12 June, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, 12 JUNE, ARMENPRESS: The chapel at Overjarva court yard will
be Stockholm's 192nd historic building.
As reports Armenpress citing The Union of Armenian Associations in
Sweden,no one knows for sure who built the chapel. But perhaps it was
the Armenian Ohan Demirgian, a diplomat who created a lot of attention
in Stockholm's social life since arrived to Sweden in the 1860s to
submit some Barbary horses as a gift to King Charles XV from Egypt's
monarch. Demirgan received Overjarva court yard as a summer place and
held lavish parties there. The chapel has been used as a conservatory,
chapel, Armenian chapel and an artist's studio, according to Dagens
Nyheter. Union of Armenian Associations in Sweden welcomes the news.
"Armenians have for years expressed interest in the building and it
has at some occasion used for holding an Armenian church service in
the chapel. We hope it will remain as an important symbolic building
of an interesting era in the Swedish cultural heritage" writes The
Union of Armenian Associations in Sweden in a statement.
ARMENPRESS
12 June, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, 12 JUNE, ARMENPRESS: The chapel at Overjarva court yard will
be Stockholm's 192nd historic building.
As reports Armenpress citing The Union of Armenian Associations in
Sweden,no one knows for sure who built the chapel. But perhaps it was
the Armenian Ohan Demirgian, a diplomat who created a lot of attention
in Stockholm's social life since arrived to Sweden in the 1860s to
submit some Barbary horses as a gift to King Charles XV from Egypt's
monarch. Demirgan received Overjarva court yard as a summer place and
held lavish parties there. The chapel has been used as a conservatory,
chapel, Armenian chapel and an artist's studio, according to Dagens
Nyheter. Union of Armenian Associations in Sweden welcomes the news.
"Armenians have for years expressed interest in the building and it
has at some occasion used for holding an Armenian church service in
the chapel. We hope it will remain as an important symbolic building
of an interesting era in the Swedish cultural heritage" writes The
Union of Armenian Associations in Sweden in a statement.