The people visiting the Saint Sargis Orthodox Church near Carolton, Texas have something in common in terms of ethnicity, but they don’t always speak in the same dialect, writes armeniangenocide100.

The entrance to the church is no different from the houses nearby. A kitchen and classrooms were added to the church over time.

It is a house that has turned into a church. After being transformed two decades ago, the structure is still the only Armenian church in Northern Texas. It is place for members of an ethnic group to gather, most of which emigrated to the United States from Turkey, Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Armenia.

“We’re certain that wherever two Armenians meet, they will create e little Armenia,” member of the church’s parish council Hamlet Sarukhanyan said. He emigrated from Iran and is the head of the Dallas branch of the Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee.

“The issue hasn’t been solved and hasn’t been forgotten,” Sarukhanyan said, adding that “it has been transferred from one generation to the next and that is what keeps us Armenians united”.

Currently, the church leaders are planning on making a structure three times bigger than the current one, writes 1in.am, according to Dallas News.

One of the members of the parish council donated the land to the church three years ago. A fundraiser is being held for construction.

According to head of the parish council Vahe Dayan, out of the required $1 million, only 25 percent remains. They hope to launch construction soon.

According to him, the construction of the church 100 years after the Armenian Genocide will be poetically perfect.