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Address: Balat Orphanage is dedicated to the history of a place of care that played a pivotal role for Istanbul's Armenian community over the course of nearly two centuries: the Khorenyan School and Orphanage in the neighbourhood of Balat, which closed its gates in the late 1970s. As they trace the Khorenyan's social and cultural memory, co-authors Tigran Amiryan and Arsen Abrahamyan reflect on the distinctive position of Armenian educational institutions in the Ottoman Empire and later in the Republic of Turkey. In exploring the intertwined processes of forgetting and remembrance, they offer intriguing insights into a rich trove of unpublished archival material that documents community life before, during, and after the Armenian Genocide.

Address: Balat Orphanage is part of the con·stel·la·tions series, published by Textem Verlag.