There hasn’t been a service held at the Istanbul Armenian Surp Vortvots Vorodman Church for the past 100 years. That is about to change.
There have been no religious services in the Istanbul Armenian Surp Vortvots Vorodman Church (Children of Thunder) for the past 100 years. But the doors to the church will finally open this July.
Deacon Vagharshak told me that the site hadn’t been used as a church since World War I. "The community has been dreaming about renovating the church and in 1987 plans were drafted but the amounts needed were staggering. It remained a dream."