Arch. Melik Tangian's Funeral in Tabriz/Iran

The name of Khrimian Hayrig is well-known to all Armenians as one of the symbolic names of the Church in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. One of his much younger contemporaries, Nerses Melik-Tangian, also took a stature somewhat comparable to that of Hayrig when he had to confront similar circumstances in the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Archbishop Melik-Tangian was a tireless servant of the Armenian Church and also the head of the Board of Trustees of the Armenian schools of Tabriz for thirty-six years. He passed away in his headquarters of Tabriz (Iran) on September 29, 1948, and was buried with military honors, in the presence of the representative of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi.