AGBU Chapters in Egypt and the Rest of Africa
At present, the District Committee of Egypt comprises two local chapters, based in Cairo and Alexandria. In 1976, Satenig Tchaker, an AGBU member and widow of the AGBU leader Djanig Tchaker, willed her mansion to the Cairo AGBU. Located in Cairo’s fashionable Zamalek neighborhood, the Tchaker residence was a sprawling, nearly forty-five-thousand-square-foot building. Mrs. Tchaker died in 1982, but it took the Cairo chapter until 1996 to resolve all the legal problems connected with the utilization of her mansion. Part of the Tchaker estate was sold off that year, enabling the local AGBU to finance several different projects with the proceeds of the sale, which were used to create the ... Read all
• Alexandria, March 1907: Mikayel Reyisian
• Cairo, March 1910: Mihran Ghazarosian
• Khartum, Sudan, January 1911: Krikor Jierjian
• Adis Ababa, January 1911: H. Asadurian
• Djibouti, August 1926: Yervant Yeghiazarian
The AGBU’s Cairo headquarters (Arch. Bibl. Nubar/Paris).
Festivities in Cairo to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the AGBU (AGBU arch./New York).
The AGBU’s Local Chapters