From a monastery to a neighbourhood: Orphans and Armenian refugees in the Armenian quarter of Jerusalem (1916–1926), reflexions towards an Armenian museum in Jerusalem

Abstract

ABSTRACT This study examines a fairly classic phenomenon of urban and social transformations resulting from political changes: the Armenian ‘neighbourhood’ of Jerusalem. The Monastery of St James, seat of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, was transformed after the First World War into a neighbourhood made up of a refugee population that survived the genocide of 1915. The activity of two orphanages set up around the Patriarchate illustrates these transformations.