Jan 8, 2024

Tbilisi’s Armenian Community Celebrates Christmas 

Ethnic Armenians celebrate Christmas on 6 January in Tbilisi, Georgia.

Almost two weeks after Christmas was celebrated elsewhere in the world, and a day before Georgia celebrated Orthodox Christmas, Tbilisi’s ethnic Armenian community celebrated its own on 6 January this year.   

According to the census in 2014, some 53,000 ethnic Armenians reside in the Georgian capital while some 168,000 ethnic Armenians make up Georgia’s second largest ethnic minority, not including those residing in the breakaway region of Abkhazia.  

  

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Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili congratulated those citizens of ethnic Armenian background as well as the citizens of Armenia, the country’s southern most neighbour, referring to both as the “brotherly Armenian people.” Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili also wished the Armenian Apostolic Church and its congregation “Peace, health, and welfare.” Other officials in Tbilisi did the same. 

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