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Patriarch Yacoub III opens Mor Yuhanon, the first Syriac Orthodox church in Brazil, 1958

Place: São Paulo
Date: 1958

Patriarch Ignatius Yacoub III, holding a hand cross, walks through a crowd showered with petals at the opening of the Mor Yuhanon Syriac Orthodox church in São Paulo on 10 August 1958; the site calls it the first Syriac Orthodox church in Brazil.

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arameans.com Digital Archive (Syriac Pearls)

Patriarch Yacoub III opens Mor Yuhanon, the first Syriac Orthodox church in Brazil, 1958

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