Saint Sarkis Armenian Church
and Community Center
The Saint Sarkis Armenian Church and Community Center to receive The International Architecture Award for 2025
SEPTEMBER, 2025
The Saint Sarkis Armenian Church and Community Center in Carrollton, Texas, designed by David Hotson_Architect, and project architect Stepan Terzyan, in collaboration with visionary primary patron Elie Akilian, will receive The International Architecture Award for 2025 from The European Centre for Architecture during an awards gala in Athens, Greece on Saturday, September 20th.
Modeled after the 1,400-year-old church of Saint Hripsime near Yerevan, the Saint Sarkis church features a memorial façade that commemorates the 1.5 million victims of the 1915 Armenian genocide.
The Church’s western façade is spanned by the figure of a traditional Armenian cross, composed of interwoven botanical and geometric motifs derived from Armenian art.
As the visitor approaches, the overall design dissolves into an array of 1.5 million unique, digitally-printed icons—each one centimeter in diameter and each memorializing an individual victim of the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
An encounter with one-and-a-half million individual pixels spreading out across the facade provides a visceral impression of the enormity of this historical atrocity.
The scale and massing of the Church is modeled on the ancient church of Saint Hripsime, completed in 618AD, which still stands outside the Armenian capital of Yerevan.
Indirect light coves, modeled on the deep concave recesses in the exterior of Saint Hripsime, reflect the powerful Texas sunlight into the interior.
The powerful Texas sunlight is reflected into the interior and spread across the smooth surface of the intersecting plaster vaults, resulting in an ethereal quality of illumination.
The Saint Sarkis Church and Community Center has received numerous regional, national, and international awards, including
The church will also be featured in New International Architecture published by Global Design and Urbanism.
Photography by Dror Baldinger, FAIA.
DAVID HOTSON_ARCHITECT
WWW.HOTSON.NET
SEPTEMBER, 2025
The Saint Sarkis Armenian Church and Community Center in Carrollton, Texas, designed by David Hotson_Architect, and project architect Stepan Terzyan, in collaboration with visionary primary patron Elie Akilian, will receive The International Architecture Award for 2025 from The European Centre for Architecture during an awards gala in Athens, Greece on Saturday, September 20th.
Modeled after the 1,400-year-old church of Saint Hripsime near Yerevan, the Saint Sarkis church features a memorial façade that commemorates the 1.5 million victims of the 1915 Armenian genocide.
The Church’s western façade is spanned by the figure of a traditional Armenian cross, composed of interwoven botanical and geometric motifs derived from Armenian art.
As the visitor approaches, the overall design dissolves into an array of 1.5 million unique, digitally-printed icons—each one centimeter in diameter and each memorializing an individual victim of the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
An encounter with one-and-a-half million individual pixels spreading out across the facade provides a visceral impression of the enormity of this historical atrocity.
The scale and massing of the Church is modeled on the ancient church of Saint Hripsime, completed in 618AD, which still stands outside the Armenian capital of Yerevan.
Indirect light coves, modeled on the deep concave recesses in the exterior of Saint Hripsime, reflect the powerful Texas sunlight into the interior.
The powerful Texas sunlight is reflected into the interior and spread across the smooth surface of the intersecting plaster vaults, resulting in an ethereal quality of illumination.
The Saint Sarkis Church and Community Center has received numerous regional, national, and international awards, including
- AIANY 2024 Honor Award in Architecture
- Best of Year Award / ID 2022
- US Building of the Year 2022 / World-Architects
- The Dallas Morning News / The Best New Building in Texas is a church in the Dallas suburbs /
- Fast Company / This stunning church pays tribute to the victims of the Armenian genocide
- Interni_Italy / A hymn to light and silence
- The Plan_Italy / Drawing Closer
- Metalocus_Spain / Between the monolithic and the ethereal
- Archi_Russia / A bold image of resilience
- Divisare / Saint Sarkis Community Center
The church will also be featured in New International Architecture published by Global Design and Urbanism.
Photography by Dror Baldinger, FAIA.
DAVID HOTSON_ARCHITECT
WWW.HOTSON.NET
Read all about the St. Sarkis Armenian Church
- Saint Sarkis Armenian Church honors victims of Armenian genocide (fastcompany.com)
- Saint Sarkis Armenian Church - US Building of the Week (world-architects.com)
- New St. Sarkis Armenian Church in Carrollton, Texas Memorializes 1,400-Year-Old Armenian Sanctuary – Asbarez.com
- St. Sarkis Armenian Church Consecrated in Dallas - The Armenian Mirror-Spectator (mirrorspectator.com)
- Architect David Hotson Reinterprets Classical Armenian Church Design in Texas - The Armenian Mirror-Spectator (mirrorspectator.com)
- Carrollton church sanctified the day before international Armenian Diaspora | Carrollton Leader | starlocalmedia.com
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Consecration of St. Sarkis Armenian Church - April 23, 2022
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