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Pagramian Sports Club was an Armenian sports and cultural organization in Lebanon. It was linked to the Lebanese Communist Party.
As of 1949 Pagramian took part in the Beirut Committee of football clubs.
Ahead of the 1957 parliamentary election Pagramian Sports Club and other anti-Tashnaq sports outfits (Homenmen, Antranik, Veradznut, Tekeyan-Baykar) organized a 'Pan-Armenian Festival' on April 22, 1957 under the patronship of Archbishop Khat. Some 2,000 athletes took part in the event, which had some 25,000 spectators at Beirut Municipal Stadium. On June 10, 1957, the election day itself, three persons (Krikor Vrtanessian, Bedris Kdjoyan and Levon Kdjoyan) were shot to death just in front of the Pagramian club office. The opposition blamed the Tashnaq party for the killings.
The Pagramian Sports Club was shut down by the Lebanese government in 1960. In 1969 the Ararad Sport Association was set up to fill the void after the closing of Pagramian.