1. The area was created when surplus
city land on the south side of what was then Stanley Way was sold to various
religious institutions and renamed in honor of the religious mix. It has its
own neighborhood association (and they're not very happy about the new home
development across the street).
2. The "Peace" statue, a
metal sculpture by Beniamino Bufano, was at the entry to San Francisco
International Airport for almost 40 years.
*plus three bonus facts about the
Evangelical Armenian Church!
I. The
Evangelical Armenian Union of North America is an association of Protestant
churches intentionally ministering primarily to people who identify as Armenian
by culture and language. The various evangelical Armenian churches in Canada
and the United States banded together to form the Armenian Evangelical Union of
North America in 1971.
II. Individual
congregations may also belong to denominations including United Church of Christ,
Assemblies of God, United Presbyterian Church (USA), or Church of the Nazarene.
III. The group originated in 1846 when a
group of 37 men and one woman in Istanbul were excommunicated for their desire
to reform the existing Armenian Apostolic Church. As a result, the new church
was formed. Due to wars and persecution, many Armenians migrated to the United
States and in the 1880s, the first Armenian Evangelical Church in this country
was formed in Worcester, Massachusetts. When it was formally organized, in
1892, it was called the Church of the Martyrs.
-- Mindy
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