PhotographAA-0377

Crowd at the start of church construction in the Syriac Quarter, Aleppo, 1932

Place: Aleppo · today Syria
Date: 1932

A dense crowd of men, women and children gathered on rocky ground at the beginning of the construction of the Syriac church, likely St George's in the Syriac Quarter of Aleppo, in 1932.

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urhoy1924.com (Syriac community of Aleppo; many prints watermarked Qenshrin.com), via Wikimedia Commons

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Crowd at the start of church construction in the Syriac Quarter, Aleppo, 1932

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