Talk:Armenian Quarter

message: Could the contributor who tagged this article as non-neutral please explain why he/she did so? Hakob 21:19, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutrality

message: I have removed this concluding sentence of the article:
"The Armenian community is but a smaller example of Israel as whole, of a community's ability to survive and persevere for such long periods."
Two reasons.  One, this is a triple evaluative opinion, expressing praise for Israel, expressing praise for the Armenians in Jerusalem, and comparing them.  This is not an encyclopedic fact. It is a generous opinion, maybe, but it is still an opinion. It also might not be acceptable to all the people being discussed without some modulation.
Second,  the sentence is poorly phrased.  The Armenians are not an "example" of Israel, that's not the intended word. And smaller than what?  "Examples" are not "smaller" than the things they are "examples" of,  exactly. Is "2+2=4" "smaller" than "addition"?  It's just an--example!
Perhaps the contributor of the sentence could find quotations from figures in the community being discussed expressing the sentiments he or she means to document.  That would be more informative, perhaps.
— Inacurate statement
"With the outbreak of World War I the Armenians found themselves cut off from their sources of 
support among the western powers. In 1915, using the excuse that the Armenians were allied with the Russians, the Young Turks ordered all Armenians expelled from Armenia in north eastern Turkey. The Soviets meanwhile marched into Russian Armenia and annexed it as a Soviet Socialist Republic." 
First of all, the paragraph seems to imply that East Armenia was annexed by Soviet Union in 1915, as we all know USSR did not exist at the time. Armenia became a Soviet Republic only in 1922. Anyone care to rewrite?
209.195.110.247 06:17, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed evaluative and awkward sentence 

message: "Jordanian rule was not as equal and tolerant as modern day historians like to imagine it."
I have the same sympathies regarding Israel's more humane treatment of its religious minorities, but what you're basically saying here is that you've put something in wikipedia that doesn't belong there. It's a tertiary work, remember; our job is precisely to report what "modern day historians" tend to claim. If we think they're wrong, well, wikipedia isn't the place to solve that problem. The whole Jordanian rule section is an unsourced editorial as it stands. I think with a little work it could be made into something respectable that nevertheless doesn't whitewash Jordan's role. Make no mistake, though, it can't stay as it is.205.212.73.163 07:45, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jordanian rule 

message: The chapter Jordanian rule 1948–1967 states:  Jordanian rule was not as equal and tolerant as modern day historians like to imagine it. This is pure opinion - without any source given! There should generally be a lot more of notes and sources in the article! 
The picture showing an Eastern Orthodox Man in the Armenian Quarter is questionable as well. What's the value of a - eastern orthodox clergyman in the article about the Armenian quarter where there is non Armenien clergyman?  Besides of that the caption Man in the Armenian Quarter is rather poor. - Eliminate this picture it's of no value in this article! 
Any article about Jerusalem, an apple of discord, absolutely need notes! This is not a solution but a first step. Apocolocynthosis (talk) 22:25, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources needed

message: Armenian church is not Monophysites nor Dyophysites. They have rejected both. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miaphysitism  Miaphysitism (sometimes called henophysitism) is a Christological formula of the Oriental Orthodox Churches and of the various churches adhering to the first three Ecumenical Councils. The Oriental Orthodox Churches include the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Syrian Orthodox Church, the Indian Orthodox Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church (including the British Orthodox Church which is under the Patriarch of Alexandria), the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the newly autocephalous Eritrean Orthodox Church. Armen11 (talk) 22:43, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Armenian church is not Monophysites nor Dyophysites 

message: This is a great article, but there are a couple issues that need to be addressed especially since it's being nominated for GA:
*The main issue is the lack of attribution of quotes to their sources. All of the quotes are backed by citations, but they need to be directly attributed to whoever made the statement. Also, some quotations don't need to be quoted at all and could be paraphrased instead.
*The following sentence needs a citation: The significant increase in the population in 1690 is attributed to urbanization experienced by the Armenians and other Christians. Thus Armenians came to make up 22.9% of Jerusalem's Christians by 1690, becoming the second largest Christian community. 
Both these issues should be easy fixes for whoever has access to the sources. Good luck with the nomination. --Al Ameer (talk) 21:17, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: All fixed. --Երևանցի talk  13:34, 22 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just some notes 

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message: Is there a proof that a man smoking hookah is actually an Armenian priest? Asking since the man does not look neither Armenian nor priest. And the source link does not work as well.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zyxel2000 (talk • contribs) 18:43, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: The priest smoking hookah

message: What are they based on? Legal documents, tradition, or simply tourist maps copied again & again? Why I am asking:
* Relevant re. encroachment of Jewish Quarter.
* If there is no LEGAL base (a firman, or even older, pre-Ottoman documents?), then it is very hard to see how following entities should be part of the AQ:
** Citadel
** Northern section with Christ Church and Austrian post office (CIC, Christian Information Centre)
** Kishle (police station)
** Syriac (Jacobite) mini-quarter around the Church of St Mark.
IF there is a legal base for counting all the SW quadrant of the Old City as part of the AQ: were (some of) the northern entities listed here built on land leased or sold by the Armenians at some point?
Once this is clarified, we should have a map and a text reflecting both the de iure and de facto aspects. What in that SW quadrant is Armenian, where did historically, and do currently, Armenians live or own houses etc. The SE part of the quarter seems to be (entirely?) part of the monastery and enclosed by its walls (is it?); the SW part across from the monastery seems also to be part of the religious and/or public section (seminary, library), including also the large mound of (Herodian and medieval?) ruins known as the Arm. Garden; the NE part, except for the CIC and Christ Church compound, looks entirely residential (do many of the Old City Armenians live there?); the NW part is hardly part of the AQ (Kishle, Citadel).
THIS would be a systematic explanation of the quarter and what I expect from an encyclopedia. But I don't have the resources to firmly know and write this. Who picks up the challenge? I'd be grateful for that. Thanks. ArmindenArminden (talk) 13:29, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Boundaries...?

message: There are two very different, mutually exclusive bits of info in the article regarding this topic: under "Jewish settlement" Israel is blamed for forcibly taking over parts of the AQ after 1967, while under "Ottoman period" it reads: "According to the 1905 Ottoman census in the Old City, the Armenian Quarter had a population of 382, of which Armenians ... less than one-third... Jews ... 33.2%... The Jews, who numbered a little more than the Armenians, inhabited the eastern part of the Armenian Quarter, which in the second half of the nineteenth century, became the western part of the Jewish Quarter."(Quoted source: Arnon, Adar (1992). "The Quarters of Jerusalem in the Ottoman Period", p. 52). I know unifying info about conflict situation is not ideal, but the user/reader is left puzzled - or rather, they only pick up just one of the two messages. Not so great. Who knows more? The two sides should be presented together, to avoid the current situation where one might not read the entire article, and be left with just ONE SIDE of the story! ArmindenArminden (talk) 14:20, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Encroachment of Jewish Qtr: demography & history, or political pressure?

message: Hi! Respect for your work, much of this page seems to be your baby. Don't get too upset about me bringing my input, with a fresh look "from the outside".
So, one map says one thing, the next says smth. else. ONE map is no argument for anything, maps/city plans are among the most POV-fraught items I can think of.
Holy sites: NOT every synagogue/church/mosque is a holy site. The Western/Wailing Wall, Tomb of Jesus, Haram ash-Sharif are holy sites. One can argue if "consecrated ground" is holy or not, but common language does not consider every place of worship a holy site. It needs more, like physical relics or the memory of a holy person who has touched it in some way. Hurva is arguably about as holy as any shul from Lower East End, Plonsk or Thessaloniki. For the Jews, I cannot think of any halachically holy place other than the Temple Mount, by extension maybe also the W. Wall; the tombs of patriarchs are widely accepted, but not by all; to the different sects the tombs of founding rabbis might be holy as well, but a) they are holy mainly to their own sect members, and b) there are none inside the city anyhow (not allowed). Similarly with old synagogues used by venerated rabbis such as Maimonides or Nachmanides: NOT unqualified holy sites.
Propaganda media need to be clearly named IN THE TEXT. Some might try to remove them altogether, but I'm all for using them, if properly marked. One cannot quote some guy with a Jewish sounding name, introduced as "Graham Usher, a Palestine-based foreign correspondent of several Western newspapers", who wrote an article for a Beirut(!)-based publication, in a new paragraph, without reminding the perplexed user why Mr. Usher sounds so one-sided. He wasn't writing there for the Economist or NYT, you know. I'd do the exact same thing with a quotation from, say, IsraelNationalNews.com / Arutz 7 or Israel Hayom & their ilk.
You can help me with something. St. T(h)oros Church is puzzling me. Hethum I built it in memory of his son killed in battle by the Mamluks, but Prince T(h)oros was not a saint, so the church must have been dedicated to/named for a Saint T(h)oros. Who would that be? If you can find out, please add him, even as a "red link", to the respective disambiguation page (Thoros, Toros, Theodore?), and please link the name on the St. Toros Church page to that saint. Maybe you can ping me if you have an answer. Thank you! Keep up the good work, ArmindenArminden (talk) 22:11, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
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