First Armenian Evangelical Church

Many Armenian Evangelicals who had settled in Beirut during the years 1914-1918 held worship services in the Dale Memorial Hall of the Presbyterian Mission.

Between the years 1922 and 1926 a large number of Armenian refugees that had survived the Armenian genocide settled in Beirut and lived in the outskirts of the city under extremely poor conditions.

The First Armenian Evangelical Church had 103 families ( a total of 488 individuals) and 150 communicant members.

The Armenian Evangelical Cultural Association (AECA)was founded on October 5, 2006, by a group of young people from the First Armenian Evangelical Church, acting in response to a scarcity of organized cultural, social, sports, political-related and work-related activities in the First Armenian Evangelical Church community.

The AECA functions officially, under the auspices of the First Armenian Evangelical Church and on its premises.