The Armenian Church
Eighteenth-century church with a six-bell belfry and a courtyard of Armenian merchant graves.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Armenian Church of the Holy Virgin Mary in Chennai starts with a tally of bells, graves and worshippers that does not add up. It follows Haruthiun Shmavonian, a grieving priest who arrived in eighteenth-century Madras from Persia and set to work at a printing press with his own hands. Stand in the courtyard near the belfry, among the memorial tablets of the Armenian merchants buried here.
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