A priest and deacons in white vestments read at the lectern of the Syriac Orthodox church in Hengelo, under a chandelier and processional cross. Anefo photographed the service on 15 January 1981, when about 150 people gathered in the church to support a man and his wife whose asylum request had been refused.

Syriac Orthodox priest celebrating the liturgy in Hengelo, 1981

Patriarch Ignatius Yacoub III and his clergy are greeted by local dignitaries on his arrival in Sherbrooke, Canada, on 12 June 1960, during his five-month pastoral visit to the Americas; the site says Fr. A. Carim Karma of St Ephrem's received him.

Patriarch Yacoub III welcomed to Sherbrooke, 1960

The whole congregation of St Ephrem's Syriac Orthodox church in Sherbrooke, Canada, men, women and children, posed in front of the brick church in the 1950s. The site says most of them came from Mardin.

Congregation of St Ephrem's Syriac Orthodox church, Sherbrooke, 1950s

Refugee girls from the Kurdistan mountains

Jilu Assyrian mother carrying her child on her back

"Americans of Assyrian lineage", group portrait published 1921

Assyro-Chaldean delegation to the Paris Peace Conference

Assyrian refugees moving to a new village, Jazira, 1939

Christian women of Koi Sanjaq, about 1919

Asleh Qambar and her son Iskhaq, Urmia, about 1900

Assyrian orphanage and school in Beirut

Sister of the Nestorian Patriarch with family, Baqubah

Consecration of the Virgin Mary church in Paramus, 1968

Karima, aged 13, from Naayem's account of the massacres

Map of a proposed Nestorian (Assyrian) enclave north of Mosul, about 1920

Assyrian National School Association memorial dinner programme, 1937

Kala Ismail Agha, near the site of a massacre

Patriarch Ignatius Elias III of the Syriac Orthodox Church, about 1924

Monk before the bishop's tower of Mor Yuhanon Tayoyo, 1909

A Nestorian (Assyrian) mother and her little girl, 1843 lithograph

Nun with a gospel at the Church of the Virgin, Hah, 1909

Ordination certificate of Nestoris Gewargis Malik

Harput Assyrians of Worcester honour Lady Surma, 4 July 1926

Assyrian workers at the Ytong factory, Kumla

Jacobite (Syriac Orthodox) women drawing water at Midyat, Tur Abdin

Ancient Nestorian church at Mar Sergis and Mart Mariam, Urmia

Syriac family of Harput before the Sayfo

Bishop Mar Zaya Sargis of Jilu with his infant nephew Isho, 1912

Syriac engagement in the association hall, Landskrona

Column of refugees on the flight from Urmia, 1918

Assyrian boy with a stick

Faces, places & memories of the Assyrian people.

Patriarch Yacoub III welcomed to Sherbrooke, 1960

Congregation of St Ephrem's Syriac Orthodox church, Sherbrooke, 1950s

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