Aramaic Syriac community of Jerusalem
Thu, Nov 02
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In the very early centuries of the Christian era, the Syriac Orthodox Christians – Aramaic speaking – settled in Jerusalem, in the so-called house of the Virgin Mary in the Syriac Quarter: this monastery, dedicated to St Mark the Evangelist, became the headquarter of the archbishopric.
Time & Location
Nov 02, 2023, 8:00 PM GMT+2
Zoom - 13:00 PM - CT
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About the event
Tur Abdin, in the Ottoman province of Diyarbakir (eastern Anatolia). But during the 19th and 20th centuries, the small community changed significantly, developing from a handful of believers attracting a few pilgrims from time to time in the Old City to a refugee center welcoming the survivors of the Seyfo, the genocide committed in Tur Abdin during World War I. Besides, their dependency on the Armenian authorities, from which they failed to free themselves, gradually resulted into their marginalization in Arab Palestine.