Francis of Assisi Church (Aleppo)
The Francis of Assisi Church ( Arabic كنيسة القديس فرنسيس الأسيزي), due to the Latin rite also Latin Church ( Arabic كنيسة اللاتين), is a church and the former cathedral of the Apostolic Vicariate Aleppo of the Roman Catholic Church in the Syrian city of Aleppo . It is located in the Azizyeh district.
history
Francis of Assisi Church was built in the 1930s and consecrated in 1937 as the new Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo. It lost this status when the new Cathedral of the Child Jesus was consecrated on January 15, 2011 .
On October 25, 2015 at around 5:50 p.m., the St. Francis of Assisi Church was shot at with artillery at the time of afternoon mass, when around 400 people were staying in it. According to the apostolic vicar Georges Abou Khazen and the pastor Ibrahim Alsabagh, this was an attempt to kill as many worshipers as possible, but it failed because the grenade slid down the roof and only exploded at its edge. Six people were slightly injured and the roof was badly damaged. At the time, St. Francis of Assisi Church was the only church in the area that was still operating, and services continued to take place even after the attack.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Former Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi, Alep, Syria. Gcatholic.org, January 20, 2020.
- ^ Cathedral of the Infant Jesus, Alep, Syria. Gcatholic.org, January 20, 2020.
- ↑ Syria: Church of St Francis in Aleppo struck mid-Mass ( Memento from November 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). DICI (Documentation, Information, Catholiques Internationales), November 6, 2015.
Coordinates: 36 ° 12 ′ 35.5 ″ N , 37 ° 9 ′ 15.6 ″ E