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Kegham Kavafyan (Գեղամ Գաւաֆեան, born 1888

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– November 30, 1959

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) was an

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. He is noted for his construction plans for the

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in the

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district of

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Biography

Kegham Kavafyan was born in

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parents. He received his primary education at the Armenian Surp Haç Tbrevank School in

Üsküdar Üsküdar () is a large and densely populated district of Istanbul, Turkey, on the Anatolian shore of the Bosphorus. It is bordered to the north by Beykoz, to the east by Ümraniye, to the southeast by Ataşehir and to the south by Kadıköy; w ...

. He continued his education at the prestigious Berberian Academy. In 1910 he graduated from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, a Civil Engineering School in

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. After returning to Istanbul, he began designing and renovating many buildings in the city. By the order of Deputy of Istanbul Süreyya İlmen, Kegham Kavafyan was appointed the architect to the

which was completed in 1927. The opera house was known to be the first

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on the

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n side of Istanbul. He also renovated the Mhitaryan Armenian School in the

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district of Istanbul in 1917. He became the principal of the

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from 1917 to 1927. Kegham Kavafyan died in

during therapy at the age of 71.

References

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