Chronicles Of The Western Diocese's Centennial History With Norayr Poghosyan - Part 10

Armenian communities that settled in the United States first established a church and an adjoining educational institution.

In the 1910s–1920s, one-day schools operated in Fresno, Fowler, Yettem, Reedley, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oakland. The annual tuition fee was one dollar.

Classes were held after public school lessons, most often on Saturday or Sunday mornings. These schools functioned adjacent to Armenian Apostolic churches but were open to Armenian children of all denominations.

The American press wrote about the literacy of Armenians: “Judging by knowledge of the Armenian language, literacy is 90 percent; judging by knowledge of English, it is 60 percent.”

Photograph – Armenian children brought to the United States after the Genocide, in the Glendale refugee camp.