ARMEN HAGHNAZARIAN - FOUNDER OF RAA (RESEARCH ON ARMENIAN ARCHITECTURE)
I met first Armen Haghnazarian in 1972, in Aachen. Khachik Khacher-Galstanian, well-known Iranian-Armenian writer, introduced him to me. Those days Armen Hagnazarian called Shahbanu's attention to the necessity of reconstruction of St. Thaddeus monastery. Soon the monastery was reconstructed on the interference of Iran's Shah. Armen Haghnazarian has done a big work as architecture, founder of RAA, financing and regulating the activities in the sphere of architecture in Armenia and Diaspora. One of his last activities was attracting UNESCO and European Union special committees' attention to the annihilation of the Armenian cemetery by Nakhijevan's Azerbaijani authorities.
Our last meeting with him was again in Aachen, in his house. I asked him to tell us about his biography.
Armen Haghnazarian was born in Tehran, in 1941. He was a student of the Armenian Kushegh-Davitian school, his father was the inspector of all the schools of Tehran and a lecturer in the University, he was from Agulis, Goghten province (gavar), and was one of the survivors of the massacres of Agulis on December 24, 1919, when Turkish armed forces invaded Iran, Tavriz and tried to annihilate Armenians there. His father fled to Armenia with his classmate Karo Ter-Zakarian. The newly created Republic of Armenia sent Armen Haghnazarian's father and other 18 students to study abroad, and then his father came back to Iran as a linguist, and a soldier of Garegin Njdeh. Here he began to teach and inspect in the only Armenian school. There were 29 Armenian schools in Tehran, when his father died in 1977. His father wrote his memories about Goghtn province (gavar) and the massacres of Armenians. The book was published in Beirut.
From 1961 to 1968 Armen Haghnazarian studied architecture in Germany. In 1968 he studied city building and took part in the reconstruction of St. Thaddeus monastery. In 1973 his wife and he removed to Iran. There they founded RAA, which is an officially registered company in Germany, USA and Armenia, the authorities of Iran also treat the company with respect. Iran authorities sponsor Armenian churches, but Turkey and Azerbaijan, which committed genocides, annihilate the Armenian historical monuments.
Armen Haghnazarian is already 35 years in this sphere and he does it with love. "All of these have political value. We have a long way to go, and I am happy to wake up every morning and see the sunrays"; he said at the end.
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