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 OKoman 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rich trove of unpublished archival material that documents community life before, during,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.