28.04.2026


The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute is pleased to announce that a chapter by AGMI researcher Dr. Arman Khachatryan, titled “Fostering Resilience through Education: The Mission of the Srp'ots' Zharankavorats' Seminary of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem”, has been published in the L’Harmattan publication indexed in the Web of Science & Leipziger Univerrsitätsverlag GmBH volume Capturing Eternity: Jerusalem Armenian Entanglements with Photography (eds. Karen Jallatyan, Diana Ghazaryan in cooperation with Bálint Kovács).

This chapter examines the establishment of the Srp'ots' Zharankavorats' Seminary of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the mid-nineteenth century and its crucial role in the education and formation of Armenian clergy. The study demonstrates that the Seminary developed into far more than a religious institution, becoming a broader intellectual center among the creation of a printing press, library, museum, the periodical Sion. It further explores how the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, despite financial and administrative difficulties, succeeded in building a resilient institution capable of ensuring its own continuity. Particular attention is devoted to the post-genocide period, when Patriarch Tourian launched what he described as a “sacred revenge” by recruiting genocide-surviving orphans into the Seminary. The chapter concludes that the Seminary played a decisive role in preserving the continuity of the Armenian Church and in transforming Jerusalem into a major center of Armenian religious, cultural, and scholarly life in the post-genocide era. The full text is available here:
https://www.academia.edu/165544026/Fostering_Resilience_through_Education_The_Mission_of_the_Srp_ots_Zharankavorats_Seminary_of_the_Armenian_Patriarchate_of_Jerusalem.