HISTORIC BUILDING IN ISTANBUL TURKEY RENTED OUT TO BE USED AS A HOTEL
Balkans.com Business News
Nov 12 2013
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Balkans.com Business News Correspondent – 12.11.2013
After being returned to the Armenian community, a historic building
in Istanbul Turkey was rented out to be used as a hotel.
Yedikule Surp Pırgic Armenian Hospital-Foundation, which regained
the historical Selamet Han in Istanbul’s Sirkeci district in February
2011, decided to rent the building.
Yedikule Surp Pırgic Armenian Hospital-Foundation Chairman Bedros
Å~^irinoglu declared the historical han has been rented and added,
“The han will serve as a boutique hotel and restaurant. We will use
our income for the hospital and nursing home.”
Å~^irinoglu thanked to the government for the return of the foundation.
The Selamet Han, located in the Eminönu district of Istanbul,
was built by architect Hovsep Aznavur and donated in 1954 to the
Surp Pırgic Armenian Hospital by businessman Calouste Gulbenkyan,
the founder of the Gulbenkyan Museum in Lisbon. The property was
confiscated in 1974.
A historic decree of revisions signed by the Turkish government in
2011 paved the way for the return of assets and property previously
seized by the state from non-Muslim foundations.
Minority foundations have thus far applied for the return of 410
assets, of which 96 have been given back. Hurriyet Daily News
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress