The Uruguayan-Armenian community began to form in the 1920s, when large groups of Armenian refugees who had been rescued from the genocide and settled from the Middle East into Uruguay.

[citation needed] In 1923, a 35-member initiative group founded the first Uruguayan-Armenian structure, the Colonial Union, with 5 people elected as representatives.

In the same year, Armenians set up a house in the Montevideo district called El Cerro, which served as a church and school.

The Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) established a chapter in Uruguay in 1939[3] and inaugurated a community center complex in 1953.

[5] In 1987, the Uruguayan government issued a special postage stamp on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party.

This church has a memorial statue by sculptor Nerses Ounanian, dedicated to the victims of the Armenian genocide.