A 1781 church in Armanitola with a walled graveyard of Armenian merchants — open every day, free to enter.
The Armenian Church of the Holy Resurrection was built in 1781 on ground that was already an Armenian graveyard. Armenian merchants had been a power in the jute, leather and salt trade of Dhaka since the seventeenth century, and the quarter around the church still carries their name: Armanitola.
The building is plain and well proportioned, with doors on four sides and a gallery inside. A clock tower raised beside it in the nineteenth century came down in the earthquake of 1897 and was never rebuilt.
Most of the ground is graveyard — hundreds of marble slabs under old trees, many of them carved in Armenian, recording a community that has almost entirely gone. A caretaker keeps the church and grounds, and visitors are asked to sign the guest book.
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