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Consecration of St George's Syriac Orthodox Church, Aleppo, 1953

Place: Aleppo · today Syria
Date: 1953

Bishops with processional crosses and fans, clergy and a crowd of men and women in fezzes and headscarves at the doorway of St George's Church in the Syriac Quarter during its consecration by Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem I Barsoum.

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Consecration of St George's Syriac Orthodox Church, Aleppo, 1953

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