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

Colour photograph of the ordination of Abuna John Khoury in 1966: he kneels in purple vestments before Archbishop Athanasius Yeshue Samuel, surrounded by clergy and deacons, in the Virgin Mary church community of West New York.

Ordination of Abuna John Khoury, 1966

A large cast of men, women and children in costume, some in Middle Eastern dress, pose on a stage hung with American flag bunting. The archive describes them as members of the Syriac Orthodox community of the Virgin Mary Church in West New York, New Jersey, taking part in a theatrical play in 1935.

Parish theatre play of the West New York Syriac Orthodox community, 1935

Studio portrait of the Virgin Mary Syriac Orthodox Church's board of trustees in West New York, New Jersey, in 1930. Seated, left to right: Mary Koorie Boorjian, Charles Cheringal, Alfred Joseph, Rev. Elias G. Sugar, John Cherinal, George Mardinly and Tooma Redvanly; standing: Jacob Tarzy, Hanna Celingar, Ibrahim Mardinly, Hanna Kerdersha, Joseph Kazanchy and Said Atanas.

Board of trustees of the Virgin Mary Syriac Orthodox church, West New York, 1930

Deacons in white robes and priests stand before the altar of the Virgin Mary Syriac Orthodox church in West New York, New Jersey, with Archbishop Mor Severius Aphrem Barsoum at the centre. The archive names the priests from left: Fr. Sugar (West New York), Fr. Favlos Samuel (Worcester), Fr. Hanna Koorie (retired), Mor Severius, Fr. Nahum Koorie (retired) and Fr. Peter Barsoum (Central Falls).

Syriac Orthodox priests and deacons of America with Archbishop Barsoum, 1927-1928

Clergy in vestments and men in suits stand on a flag-draped wooden platform at a building site. The archive's caption says the first Syriac Orthodox church in the United States was consecrated in 1927 in West New York, New Jersey, under the guidance of Archbishop Mor Severius Aphrem Barsoum, and that the community later moved to Paramus in the 1960s.

Groundbreaking of the first Syriac Orthodox church in the US, West New York, 1927

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.

Ordination of Abuna John Khoury, 1966

Parish theatre play of the West New York Syriac Orthodox community, 1935

Board of trustees of the Virgin Mary Syriac Orthodox church, West New York, 1930

Syriac Orthodox priests and deacons of America with Archbishop Barsoum, 1927-1928

Groundbreaking of the first Syriac Orthodox church in the US, West New York, 1927

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