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

A large crowd of men, women and children gathers on the steps at the 1927 opening of St. Mary's Assyrian Apostolic Church in Worcester. Beneath an American flag hang three framed portraits, per the caption Dr. Abraham K. Yousef flanked by two Syrian Orthodox patriarchs, and an early three-starred Assyrian tricolour flag is draped on the brick wall.

Opening of St. Mary's Assyrian Church, Worcester, 1927

A man in a light coat crouches on wooden scaffolding beside the rising brick walls of St. Mary's Assyrian Apostolic Church on Hawley Street, Worcester, holding his hat; the cornerstone beside him is carved with a cross and "A.D. 1927". The caption describes the photo as the laying of the foundation.

Laying the foundation of St. Mary's Assyrian Church, Worcester, 1927

Photograph of the brick church with a rose window and cross, with a long flight of steps beside it, captioned in Syriac and English "St. Mary's Assyrian Apostolic Church, Worcester, Massachusetts". It is a plate in the parish's 1957 prayer, hymn and liturgy book compiled and translated by its pastor, the Very Rev. Peter Barsoum.

St. Mary's Assyrian Apostolic Church, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1957

A panoramic photograph of several hundred men, women and children of the Harpoot Assyrian United Association of America at an outdoor outing in Worcester, Massachusetts, held in honour of Lady Surma d'Bait Mar Shimun on 4 July 1926. Flags fly over the crowd and the caption is written in both Syriac script and English.

Harput Assyrians of Worcester honour Lady Surma, 4 July 1926

Men, women and children of the Worcester Assyrian community gather in the street with American flags, the old Assyrian tricolour and a sign reading "Sons of Assyria" on 4 July 1922. The source names Dr. Abraham K. Yousef among them; the man in military uniform beside the flag is possibly him. The Commons copy notes the group came from Tur Abdin, Harput and Diyarbakir.

Sons of Assyria on the Fourth of July in Worcester, 1922

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

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.

Opening of St. Mary's Assyrian Church, Worcester, 1927

Laying the foundation of St. Mary's Assyrian Church, Worcester, 1927

St. Mary's Assyrian Apostolic Church, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1957

Harput Assyrians of Worcester honour Lady Surma, 4 July 1926

Sons of Assyria on the Fourth of July in Worcester, 1922

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