Mount Ararat with the historic Khor Virap monastery visible at center-left

Cuisine

After 1915, Armenian refugees established a concentrated community in Bourj Hammoud, a district of Beirut, where a distinct Armenian-Lebanese cuisine developed over the 20th century. Soujouk pizza — a flatbread topped with spiced Armenian sausage and cheese — is a Bourj Hammoud invention that entered mainstream Lebanese street food.

After 1915, Armenian refugees established a concentrated community in Bourj Hammoud, a district of Beirut, where a distinct Armenian-Lebanese cuisine developed over the 20th century. Soujouk pizza — a flatbread topped with spiced Armenian sausage and cheese — is a Bourj Hammoud invention that entered mainstream Lebanese street food.

2830Cuisine