New Street Doorway

You may have noticed I like architectural details and this doorway caught my eye - what a great name.

I did a bit of research and came up with the following:

"At number 4 New Street in the City of London, not far from Liverpool Street station, there is a discreetly elegant door, over which, on the architrave, are the words EZEPOS G BENLIAN in relief.

The brothers Aharon and Ezepos Benlian were Armenian merchants, trading together as A & E Benlian Brothers until their partnership was dissolved in 1904. They specialised in the import of high quality oriental carpets from the Tabriz region of Iran. Tabriz had a sizeable Armenian community and it is likely that there was a branch of the Benlian family residing there, as Aharon and Ezepos appear to have been born, circa 1861 and 1869 respectively, in the town of Caesarea in Cappadocia in the Ottoman Empire (today Kayseri, Turkey). The family also had a Constantinople connection, as Ezepos?s son Edward was born there in about 1899/1900. Quite possibly Ezepos had married his wife Haykanush Evrenian in the Ottoman capital a year or so earlier."