Singapore Has Become the Home to Asia's First Armenian Museum

• 05.24.2018, 17:50
•  Armenia

The Armenian community is opening a museum - the first in Asia - in Singapore to celebrate its presence in the southeastern Asian nation, PanArmenian reports, referring to "The Straits Times" reports.

Now, the small but prolific community has spent $1.2 million in its first concerted effort to raise awareness about its presence and role in the Republic as one of its oldest communities.

The Singapore Armenian community has built a museum at its Parsonage building in Hill Street and is in the midst of constructing a community centre there. It will also continue the ongoing restoration of the Armenian Church in the same Hill Street compound.

The Armenian museum is officially launching on Thursday, May 24 by National Heritage Board (NHB) chief executive Chang Hwee Nee and Bishop Haigazoun Najarian from the Diocese of the Armenian Church of Australia and New Zealand.

The church in Singapore is the oldest Armenian church in South-east Asia.