Fading history: empty Armenian church's last worshipper in Bangladesh


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Ghosh doing some work inside the Armenian church in Dhaka. 'I love this work. I consider it a sacred duty bestowed upon me, ' he says. Photo: AFP

With no priest to minister and no faithful to pray, an Armenian church in Bangladesh has one last parishioner: a Hindu caretaker doing his "sacred duty" to preserve a relic of the city's former commercial elite.

Shankar Ghosh makes the sign of the cross before opening the entrance of the striking white and yellow edifice, built 240 years ago in the capital Dhaka.

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