PhotographAA-0562

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

Place

West New York

Date

1927

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.