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Club "Charitable Society", Trebizond

Συγγραφή : Salvanou Aimilia (18/11/2002)
Μετάφραση : Velentzas Georgios

Για παραπομπή: Salvanou Aimilia, "Club "Charitable Society", Trebizond",
Εγκυκλοπαίδεια Μείζονος Ελληνισμού, Μ. Ασία
URL: <http://www.ehw.gr/l.aspx?id=10287>

Σύλλογος "Φιλόπτωχος Αδελφότης", Τραπεζούντα (3/6/2008 v.1) Club "Charitable Society", Trebizond (5/10/2010 v.1) 
 

1. Foundation

The information about the year the club was founded is contradictory: Chrysanthos Filippidis, the metropolitan of Trebizond, dates it to 1830,1 while the journal Pontiaki Estia reports that the club succeeded the "politiki kassa" (communal treasury), which was dissolved in 1844.2 The activities of the club in this period remain practically unknown. However, it is certain that it was formed again in 1868, as part of the attempt of the Orthodox cities of the Pontus to create, after the Tanzimat reforms, a new public field of action.

2. Aim

The charitable activities of the club aimed at relieving the poor members of Trebizond community. However, they were not limited to the Orthodox population, as help was also given to the entire population of Trebizond in need for help, including Muslims and Armenians.

3. Activities

“Charitable Society” was one of the most long-lived clubs of Trebizond. However, it faced serious financial problems that affected its activities for several years. The prosperity of the first decade of operation, when the club managed to amass a capital of 800 liras, was followed by an extended period of slump. The capital was invested in buying a building that was going to house the club "Anatoli". This move was dictated by the lack of an adequate building in the city and by the wish to increase the society's income in order to perform its charitable activities more easily. Money was borrowed from the society "Syneranistiki Adelfotis", an event signalling the onset of problems. The interest-bearing loan hindered the operation of the club and, as a result, the charitable activities slacked off for five years and the club was nearly dissolved, since it hardly managed to pay off its debt to the "Syneranistiki Adelfotis". At the same time, the club "Anatoli", also facing financial problems, could not pay the rent to the Charitable Society and had sub-leased a part of the building to the association "Xenophon", which for a while hired the building directly from the Society and undertook its maintenance.

However, in 1878 the building, which was the only asset of the society, came to the possession of the "Syneranistiki Adelfotis". The metropolitan of Trebizond made a great effort towards the smooth rebirth of the club. In 1881, following a meeting of the supervisory body under the metropolitan, a special committee was formed aiming to promote the registration of new members, while other committees in the various parishes would care for the regular collection of donations from churches and households. Furthermore, some members of the "Syneranistiki Adelfotis" gave away shares to the “Charitable Society” and, as a result, the debt of the first to the second was reduced. It is unknown wether the ownership of the building was transferred to the Charitable Society.

However, the activities of the Charitable Society continued, as evidenced, even when things were difficult for Trebizond, as it happened during the cholera epidemic that afflicted the city in 1910 and the persecutions against the Armenians in 1915. Among other expenses, during the epidemic the club expended a part of its reserve funds in order to pay the nurses that relieved the deserted victims of the epidemic,3 while, according to information, in 1915 the club tried to help the Armenian children, which, with the intervention of the metropolitan of Trebizond Chrysanthos, had been exempted from exile.4

1. Χρύσανθος, μητροπολίτης Τραπεζούντος, “Η Εκκλησία Τραπεζούντος”, Αρχείον Πόντου 4-5 (1933), p. 747.

2. Ποντιακή Εστία 2 (1951), p. 786.

3. Ξενοφάνης 7 (1910), p. 396.

4. Ποντιακή Εστία 2 (1951), p. 786.

     
 
 
 
 
 

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