St Sarkis, Kensington

St Sarkis, Kensington
St Sarkis, Kensington
51°29′59″N 0°11′37″W / 51.49963°N 0.19365°W / 51.49963; -0.19365Coordinates: 51°29′59″N 0°11′37″W / 51.49963°N 0.19365°W / 51.49963; -0.19365
Country	United Kingdom
Denomination	Armenian Apostolic Church
Architecture
Architect(s)	Arthur Davis
Administration
Diocese	Diocese of the Armenian Church of Great Britain

St Sarkis, Kensington is an Armenian church and a Grade II* listed building in Iverna Gardens, Kensington, London, England. It was constructed in 1922–23 by Calouste Gulbenkian as a memorial to his parents, and the architect was Arthur Davis.^[1]^[2] The largest Armenian church in the United Kingdom—St Yeghiche, a converted Anglican church—is in South Kensington.

References

↑ Historic England. "Church of St Sarkis (Armenian Church), Iverna Gardens, W8 (1080556)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
↑ Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert. The London Encyclopaedia (1993 ed.). Macmillan. p. 426. ISBN 0-333-57688-8. Retrieved 17 March 2014.

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Churches in Kensington and Chelsea

Ancient parish churches (pre-1800)	Chelsea Old Church St Mary Abbots, Kensington

Anglican daughter churches	All Saints, Notting Hill Christ Church, Eldon Road Holy Trinity, Brompton Holy Trinity, Sloane Street St Augustine, Queen's Gate St Barnabas, Kensington St Clement, Notting Dale St Cuthbert, Earl's Court St George, Campden Hill St James, Norlands St John, Notting Hill St John the Baptist, Holland Road St Jude, Kensington St Luke's Chapel, Brompton Hospital St Luke, Chelsea St Helen, North Kensington St Mary, Bourne Street St Mary the Boltons, Kensington St Michael and All Angels, Ladbroke Grove St Paul, Onslow Square St Peter, Notting Hill St Stephen, Gloucester Road

Other denominations	Brompton Oratory Deutsche Evangelische Christuskirche Essex Street Chapel, Kensington Fetter Lane Society, Chelsea Kensington Congregational Chapel Kensington Temple Holy Redeemer and St Thomas More, Chelsea Our Lady of Victories, Kensington St Columba's, Pont Street St Mark, Kensington St Mary, Cadogan Street St Sarkis, Kensington St Sava, Notting Hill St Yeghiche, South Kensington Tabernacle, Notting Hill

Dioceses of the Armenian Apostolic Church

Armenia and
Nagorno-Karabakh

Etchmiadzin

Aragatsotn (Saint Mesrop of Oshakan)
Araratian (Saint Sarkis of Yerevan)
Artik (Saint Gregory of Artik)
Armavir (Holy Mother of God of Vagharshapat)
Artsakh (Ghazanchetsots of Shushi)
Gegharkounik (Holy Mother of God Cathedral of Gavar)
Gougark (Gregory of Narek of Vanadzor)
Kotayk (Kecharis of Tsaghkadzor)
Shirak (Holy Mother of God of Gyumri)
Syunik (Saint Gregory of Goris)
Tavush (Surp Nerses of Ijevan)
Vayots Dzor (Holy Mother of God of Yeghegnadzor)

Middle East

Etchmiadzin	Damascus (Saint Sarkis of Damascus) Egypt (Saint Gregory of Cairo) Iraq (Saint Gregory of Baghdad)

Cilicia	Atrpatakan (Saint Mary of Tabriz) Beroea (Forty Martyrs of Aleppo) Cyprus (Holy Mother of God of Nicosia) Isfahan (Saint Joseph of Arimathea at the Holy Saviour Monastery of New Julfa of Isfahan) Jezireh (Surp Hagop of al-Qamishli) Kuwait (Holy Vartanants of Kuwait City) Lebanon (Surp Nshan of Beirut) Tehran (Saint Sarkis of Tehran) UAE and Qatar (Holy Martyrs of Abu Dhabi)

Jerusalem	Patriarchate of Jerusalem (Saint James of Jerusalem) Amman (Saint Thaddeus of Amman)

Constantinople	Patriarchate of Constantinople (Holy Mother of God of Kumkapı of Istanbul)

Europe

Etchmiadzin	France (Saint John the Baptist of Paris) Georgia (Surp Gevork of Tbilisi) Germany (Saint Sahak and Mesrop of Köln) Great Britain and Ireland (Surp Sarkis of London) Greece (Holy Mother of God of Peristeri of Athens) Nor Nakhijevan and Russia (Holy Transfiguration of Moscow) Bulgaria (Holy Mother of God of Sofia) Romania (Holy Archangels of Bucharest) Southern Russia (Saint John the Evangelist of Krasnodar) Switzerland (Surp Hagop of Geneva) Ukraine (Assumption of Mary of Lviv) Central Europe and Sweden (Saint Mary of Magdalene of Brussels) Azerbaijan (Saint Gregory of Baku) (abandoned)

Cilicia	Greece (Saint Gregory of Athens)

North America

Etchmiadzin	Canada (Saint Gregory of Montreal) Eastern USA (Saint Vartan of New York) Western USA (Saint Levon of Los Angeles)

Cilicia	Canada (Surp Hagop of Montreal) Eastern USA (Saint Gregory of New York) Western USA (Saint John the Baptist of Los Angeles)

South America

Etchmiadzin	Argentina (Saint Gregory of Buenos Aires) Brazil (Surp Gevork of São Paulo) Uruguay (Surp Nerses of Montevideo)

Asia and Oceania

Etchmiadzin	India and the Far East (Holy Nazareth of Kolkata) Australia and New Zealand (Holy Mother of God of Sydney)

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