Plans are ready for restoring 2 Armenian churches in Malatya, Turkey
9/2/2012
The Provincial Hall of Turkey’s Malatya Province completed its plan for the restoration of two Armenian churches in the Province, and it sent the plan for the approval of Sivas (Sebastia) Regional Council for the Preservation of Cultural Values.
The churches included in this restoration plan are Malatya’s 250-year old Tashoron (Surb Yerrordutyun; Holy Trinity) Church and the church of Vank village, Aktifhaber website of Turkey informs.
Malatya’s Provincial Governor Ulvi Saran said all that remains is for the restoration plan to be approved, and subsequently the churches will begin to be restored.
To note, the Armenians living in Malatya and Istanbul, plus the foundation that builds mosques, earlier had reached an agreement on restoring the Tashoron Church in Malatya, the birthplace of Hrant Dink—the founder and former chief editor of Istanbul’s Agos Armenian weekly, who was killed in 2007—but because of financial difficulties the aforesaid foundation could start the restoration.
Also, the guard house and the chapel of the Armenian cemetery of Malatya were destroyed, several days ago and upon the instruction of Malatya City Hall, after which the Mayor of Malatya had claimed that these constructs were destroyed by mistake, and he promised to restore the damage.
