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    LIFE OF ARMENIANS SEEN THROUGH LENS

    Zee News, India
    Dec 26 2014

    Kolkata: Festivals of the city's tiny and reclusive Armenian community,
    who celebrate Christmas on January 6, have now been captured on camera.

    Travel writer and photographer Rangan Datta has come up with a photo
    exhibition comprising 18 images shot over a period of five years.

    The photographs reveal the little-known life and customs of Armenians
    in the city whose population has dwindled down to around 150 now.

    Armenians follow the Orthodox calendar, which marks the birth of
    Jesus Christ as January 6 and not December 25.

    Accordingly, they celebrate Christmas in the New year each time at
    Kolkata's Armenian Holy Church of Nazareth.

    The exhibition also covers other festivals like Pilgrimage to
    Chinsurah, when members of the community go on an annual pilgrimage
    to St John, the Baptist, Armenian Church in the erstwhile Dutch
    settlement of Chinsurah.

    Celebrated every year on the Sunday after the Armenian Christmas,
    the pilgrims carry the golden hand of St John who is said to have
    baptised Jesus Christ in the waters of the Jordan river.

    The golden hand contains the relic, a piece of bone from the right
    hand of St John.

    Held on the Sunday closest to August 15, the Blessing of the Grapes
    ceremony is another important festivals of the Armenian calender.

    Moments from occasions of mourning like the Armenian Good Friday and
    Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day also find place in the exhibit which
    depicts how most of their community activities are centred around their
    churches - three in Kolkata and one in Chinsurah (Hooghly district).

    PTI

    http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/life-of-armenians-seen-through-lens_1520674.html



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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