A number of organizations, museums, and monuments are intended to serve as memorials to the Armenian genocide and its over 1 million victims.
Turkey has campaigned against the establishment of such memorials. In 1983, Israeli diplomat reported that he was told by a representative of the Turkish Foreign Ministry that "Turkey will not accept the establishment of an Armenian Memorial in Israel. Establishing such a monument would jeopardize the relations between the two countries and might push them to the point of no return."[1]
The following table shows the major memorials around the world dedicated to the memory of the Armenian genocide victims.
Image | Memorial | Country | Location | Date | |
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Huşartsan Memorial (Turkish: Taksim Ermeni Soykırımı Anıtı) | Turkey | Taksim Square, Allied-occupied Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey) | 1919–1922[2] [3] | ||
Armenian Genocide Memorial | Mexico City | 1930 | |||
Memorial Chapel | 1938 | ||||
Armenian Genocide Memorial | São Paulo | 1965 | |||
Armenian Genocide Memorial | Kolkata, West Bengal | 1965 | |||
Memorial khachkar | Armenia | Etchmiadzin Cathedral compound, Vagharshapat | 1965 | ||
Armenian Genocide Memorial | United States | Watertown, Massachusetts | 1965 | ||
Armenian Genocide Memorial | Lebanon | Bikfaya | 1965 | ||
Tsitsernakaberd (Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute) | Armenia | Yerevan | 1967 | ||
Montebello Genocide Memorial | United States | Montebello, California | 1968 | ||
Marseille Genocide Memorial (avenue du Prado) | France | Marseilles | 1973[4] | ||
Armenian Genocide Memorial | Iran | Saint Sarkis Cathedral, Tehran | 1973 | ||
Armenian Genocide Memorial | Iran | Holy Savior Cathedral, New Julfa, Isfahan | 1975 | ||
Armenian Martyrs Memorial | Uruguay | St. Nerses Shnorhali Church, Montevideo | 1975[5] | ||
Armenian Martyrs' Monument | USA | Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza, Phoenix, Arizona | 1978[6] | ||
Armenian Genocide memorial | United States | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 1980s[7] | ||
Armenian Genocide Memorial | Buenos Aires | 1983 | |||
Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex | Der Zor | 1990-2014 | |||
Armenian Genocide Monument | Nicosia | 1990 | |||
Armenian Genocide memorial | Syria | Cathedral of the Forty Martyrs, Aleppo | 28 May 1991 | ||
Armenian Genocide memorial | Belgium | Ixelles | 1995 | ||
Armenian Genocide Monument on Mt. Davidson | United States | San Francisco, California | 1997 | ||
Armenian Genocide Memorial | Marcelin-Wilson Park, Montreal, Quebec | 1998 | |||
Armenian Martyrs Memorial | United States | Providence, Rhode Island | 1999 | ||
Holy Resurrection Church (site of mass grave in the Syrian desert discovered in the early 90s)[8] | Syria | Margadeh village | 1999 | ||
Mother Arising Out of the Ashes, memorial statue | Armenia | Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Park, Yerevan | 2002 | ||
Memorial to Père Komitas and victims of the Armenian Genocide | France | , Paris | 2003 | ||
Marseille Genocide Memorial (avenue du 24 avril 1915) | France | Marseille | 2006[9] [10] | ||
Armenian Martyrs Memorial on the grounds of Saints Vartanantz Armenian Orthodox Church | United States | Chelmsford, Massachusetts | 2005 | ||
Khachkar in Nelson-Mandela-Park | Germany | Bremen | 2005 | ||
Lyon Armenian Genocide Memorial | France | Lyon | 2006 | ||
Armenian Genocide Memorial | Cyprus | Larnaca | 2008 | ||
Armenian Heritage Park | United States | Boston, Massachusetts | 2012 | ||
Genocidemonument | the Netherlands | Almelo | 2014 | ||
Armenian Genocide Monument | United States | California State University, Fresno, Fresno, California | 2015 | ||
Khachkar memorial to the 1915 Armenian Genocide | Ireland | Christ Church Cathedral Dublin, Ireland | 2015[11] | ||
Mechelen Armenian Genocide Memorial | Belgium | Mechelen | 2015 | ||
Memorial in memory of 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide committed by the Government of Ottoman Empire in 1915-1923 | Israel | Petah Tikva | 2019 | ||
The Eternal Flame | United Kingdom | Ealing, London | 2023[12] [13] | ||
Other notable monuments, squares, and memorials of the Armenian genocide include: