Armenian Church

Victorious in a legal dispute with a group of local residents, the Armenian Holy Trinity Church will sign contracts today for the construction of its new $700,000 building at Brattle and Sparks Sts. Sarkis M. Zartarian, chairman of the church board, will sign a pact authorizing the J. J. Powers Company to build the traditional Armenian structure.

Neighborhood residents had questioned the legitimacy of the Church's "hardship" claim in bypassing the local zoning restriction. They had protested that the building would "dominate and change the character of the neighborhood."