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Meet the Women Behind the Bazaar

   Several feet below the sacred altar of St. Stephen’s Armenian Apostolic Church, there is a kitchen unlike any other. This one is bustling with dozens of hardworking Armenian women, laughing and catching up about family life and the latest in the community while preparing pounds of gourmet Armenian food and trays of desserts for the annual church bazaar. These women are the beating heart of this Watertown church. Many make up the Ladies Guild, a collective established in 195

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Leeza Arakelian

Leeza Arakelian is the former assistant editor of the Armenian Weekly. She is a graduate of UCLA and Emerson College. Leeza has written and produced for local and network television news including Boston 25 and Al Jazeera America.

3 Comments

  1. Wonderful article on the women whe send an important message and spend months selflessly preparing. Telling something about preparing the savory foods shown in the last picture, and the women who come, would have created a balance. Leeza covered them as well. They have amazing stats about the food. Was it a lack of space? Many of them are Ladies Guild, many ARS, and even some from sister churches. Bravo to all the women who work from July to November to make the bazaar what it is.

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