Twice a year you receive special envelopes and are asked to pay “Youghakin,” but many may know little about the practice. Youghakin is made up of two Armenian words: “yough” and “kin.” “Youghakin” literally means the price of oil or donation in lieu of oil.
In olden days, prior to electricity, oil lamps and lanterns illuminated homes and worship places. Parishioners donated oil to keep the church lighted. After the invention of electricity, as oil lamps were replaced with electrical lamps, the Armenian Apostolic Church continued asking members to bring symbolic contributions for the illumination of the church through the youghakin program at Christmas and Easter. Read More »
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Sergey&Margarita(Niazyan) Arzumanov
Easter
Tigran, Karina, Christina Chogurian
Easter Youghakin In loving memory of Aram, Ofelia, Ashot Nazaretyan; Armenui and George … Read more
Easter Youghakin In loving memory of Aram, Ofelia, Ashot Nazaretyan; Armenui and George Chogurian; Ivetta Grikhina
CYNTHIA AND ED messikian
Christine Shooshan
This should be listed as Charles & Christine Shooshan
Alex and Krikorian Krikorian
Easter Youghakin
Matthew Natcharian
Anonymous
Robert Goshdigian
Bob and Andrea Karanian
Tigran, Karina, Christina Chogurian
Christmas Youghakin
Bill & Melanie Brown
Christmas Youghakin
Sergey&Margarita(Niazyan) Arzumanov
Christmas donation
