Photos: Armenian genocide

Jacqueline Toutounjian, a 73-year-old Armenian Syrian who fled the violence in Aleppo, prays at home in Anjar on April 17.

Reconstructed ruins of an ancient Ummayyad village in Anjar. The town’s first Armenian settlers found the site completely buried.

Clerics in Vagharshapat, Armenia, hold a canonization ceremony on Thursday for the victims of the Armenian genocide.

Members of the Armenian Apostolic Church participate in the canonization ceremony at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, a complex in Vagharshapat, Armenia, that serves as the administrative headquarters of the church.

Women attend a religious service at the cathedral in Vagharshapat before the canonization ceremony.

Armenian Iranian children in Esfahan, Iran, chant anti-Turkey slogans during a ceremony in April to commemorate the Armenian genocide.

A woman on Wednesday looks into a chasm as Armenians gather during a commemoration ceremony at a site called Dudan near Diyarbakir, Turkey, and believed to be a mass grave of the Armenian genocide.