Sarkis Kuyumjian Commercial Building

In 1898, Nigohos Bedrosyan designed an impressive commercial building for the Armenian Sarkis Kuyumjian, a textile merchant.
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The building is located at 2 Otets Paisiy Street, and in its original form consisted of six separate shops with galleries in the prater and warehouses located on the first floor.
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Sarkis Kuyumdjian moved from Constantinople to Ruse in 1892 with his family. In the years in which he lived here, in addition to being a prominent textile merchant, he was a manager of the Anglo-Bulgarian joint-stock company for the production of umbrellas, as well as a member of the board of Tsar Boris Gunpowder Joint-Stock Company.
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Around 1910 he moved to England and later opened a factory in Manchester. He donated a large part of his property in Ruse to the Armenian Church in the city, which is still supported by his legacy.
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His youngest son, Dikran, who was born in Ruse, is a famous writer and screenwriter in the United States under the pseudonym Michael Arlen.
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Over the years, the building has been used for sewing workshops, offices of various institutions, and now on the ground floor is a tavern "Chiflika". To this day, the building houses furniture and belongings owned by the prominent Kuyumjian family.
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Source: Doikov, V., Dimitrova, M. The buildings - the European cultural heritage of Ruse. R., 2013