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    Armenian church sees a post-pandemic revival: 'It's our home'

    LOS ANGELES – On the outskirts of Boyle Heights, a remnant of the neighborhood's historic Armenian past is having a revival. The faithful are traveling from as far away as Simi Valley and Cerritos to pray at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, a church once deemed the center of Catholic Armenian life in Los Angeles. Founded in 1952, the church hosted about 400 parishioners weekly in its heyday. The ...
    by Priscella Vega, Los Angeles Times May 26, 2021 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES – On the outskirts of Boyle Heights, a remnant of the neighborhood's historic Armenian past is having a revival.

    The faithful are traveling from as far away as Simi Valley and Cerritos to pray at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, a church once deemed the center of Catholic Armenian life in Los Angeles.

    Founded in 1952, the church hosted about 400 parishioners weekly in its heyday. The facility celebrated Mass for Armenians in their native tongue, and its cultural center once served as a place to learn about their homeland from local guest speakers.

    But over the decades, the cream-colored church's prominence has been overshadowed by St. Gregory's cathedral in Glendale.

    Nearly all Armenians who once settled in the blocks bordered by

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