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First communion children and clergy in a Syriac Orthodox church, 1960s

Place: Aleppo · today Syria
Date: 1960s

Children in white first-communion dress and boys in vestments with Syriac crosses, crowded with adults inside a Syriac Orthodox church, likely St George's in Aleppo's Syriac Quarter.

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

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First communion children and clergy in a Syriac Orthodox church, 1960s

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