St. Sarkis Armenian Apostolic Church was established on May 24, 1942 on Waterman Street in

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, US. The current location in

Dearborn, MI Dearborn is a city in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2020 census, it had a population of 109,976. Dearborn is the seventh most-populated city in Michigan and is home to the largest Muslim population in the United States pe ...

was dedicated on October 14, 1962; it serves the

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in Eastern Michigan, and is one of the Churches of the Prelacy of the

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of America under jurisdiction of the

Holy See of Cilicia The Armenian Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia ( hy, Կաթողիկոսութիւն Հայոց Մեծի Տանն Կիլիկիոյ) is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church. Since 1930, the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilic ...

. The congregation supports the Armenian Senior Citizen Tower, also called St Sarkis Towers, a 151-unit low income/senior housing facility near the church.

External links

www.saintsarkis.org
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