Name/Title
Hokevor Yerker Bashdamunki (Eflatoon E. Elmajian, 1938)Secondary Title
Spiritual Hymns of Worship. Հոգեւոր Երգեր Պաշտամունքի. Րուհանի Իպատէթ Իլահիլէրի.Description
In the early 1920s, Armenian families in Los Angeles, many recently relocated from the East Coast, began hosting prayer and Bible study meetings in their homes. At the time, there were no established Armenian Evangelical congregations in the area. Levon Shahbaghlian and Dikran Tarpinian began plans to start a new fellowship, organizing its initial core. Shahbaghlian remained active in the church until his passing at 104. The church initially met in homes, then moved to a mortuary on Main Street, and later to a YMCA building under Rev. Eflatoon E. Elmajian’s leadership.
During this time Rev. Elmajian’s trilingual (and later bilingual) hymnal was completed and published. This Spiritual Hymns for Worship hymnal would later simply be known as “The Elmajian” and be used in congregations that soon started in neighboring cities and later overseas as well as in Armenia. Rev. Elmajian continued to serve as pastor of the church for the next seven years after which Rev. Peter Agulian was called to take on the pastoral responsibilities.Book Details
Author
Elfatoon E. ElmajianPublisher
E. E. ElmajianPlace Published
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PasadenaDate Published
1938Created By
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