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Armenian Genocide Martyrs' Memorial ((アルメニア語:Մեծ Եղեռնի Նահատակաց Յուշահամալիր); (アラビア語:كنيسة شهداء الأرمن)) in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, was a complex dedicated to victims of the Armenian Genocide. The construction of the Martyrs' Memorial started in December 1989 and was completed in November 1990. It was consecrated on 4 May 1991 by Catholicos Karekin II of the Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia. The memorial complex served as church, museum, monument, archive centre and exhibition. It was under the direct administration of the Armenian Prelacy, Diocese of Aleppo. Every year, on 24 April, tens of thousands of Armenian pilgrims from all over the world visited the Der Zor complex to commemorate the genocide victims, with the presence of their religious leaders. On 21 September 2014, the memorial complex was blown up by militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. ==Background== By the initiative of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Diocese of Aleppo, the ground-blessing ceremony took place on 12 May 1985, on a piece of land which had been used as a burial site, concentration and death march camp, killing center and a site of execution during the genocide. Later, through the efforts of the Armenian community in Deir ez-Zor, a small chapel named after Saint Hripsime was built in the same place. The new memorial complex replaced this older structure. Deir ez-Zor was designated as the final destination point of the Armenian refugees who were driven out from their lands into a long march within the Syrian desert. That point of the desert, became the witness of the annihilation of the remaining refugees who were forced by the Ottoman Turks to death marches. Those major killing centres in the region, became to be known as Deir ez-Zor Camps, where, according to different sources, between 150,000 and 400,000 Armenians were killed. The Genocide Memorial was a large, freestanding sculptural work. At its base the remains of genocide victims were buried. The complex consisted of a circular glass display of genocide victims' remains, out of which a white-marble tower was grown, flanked by khatchkars (cross-stones). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Armenian Genocide Memorial Church, Der Zor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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