 Manatsakan Vardanian donated Rs.10,000 to Nazar's Holy Armenian Church.In 1884, ACPA, purchased the house and land at 56B, Free School St, later known as Mirza Ghalib Street, which had been the birthplace and residence of William Makepeace Thackeray,(1811–1863) an Anglo-Indian poet and novelist and the author of Vanity Fair and other classics.