page_title: Pagramian SC
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Pagramian SC / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Pagramian football team
context_page_description: Pagramian Sports Club was a Lebanese–Armenian sports and cultural organization linked to the Lebanese Communist Party. Formed in the 1940s, the club was shut down by the Lebanese government in 1960. In 1969, Ararad SA was formed as an extension of Pagramian.
context_section_description: As of 1949 Pagramian took part in the Beirut Committee of football clubs.
  Ahead of the 1957 parliamentary election, Pagramian Sports Club and other anti-Tashnag (anti-ARF) Lebanese Armenian sports associations like (Homenmen (affiliated with the Hunchaks), Antranik (affiliated with the Ramgavars), Veradznunt, Tekeyan-Baykar) organized a 'Pan-Armenian Festival' on April 22, 1957 under the patronage of Archbishop Khat. Some 2,000 athletes took part in the event, which had some 25,000 spectators at Beirut Municipal Stadium. On June 10, 1957, the election day itself, three persons (Krikor Vrtanessian, Bedris Kdjoyan and Levon Kdjoyan) were shot dead in front of the Pagramian club offices. The club blamed the Tashnag party for the killings.
  The Pagramian Sports Club was shut down by the Lebanese government in 1960.
  In 1969 the Ararad Sports Association was set up to fill the void after the closing of Pagramian Sports Club.
caption: Pagramian football team
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