Assumption Cathedral (al-Hasakah)

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The Assumption Cathedral ( Arabic كاتدرائية سيدة الانتقال, DMG Kātidrāʾīyat Sayyidat al-Intiqāl ) or simply Syrian Catholic Church of Al-Hasakah ( Arabic كنيسة السريان الكاثوليك) is the cathedral of the Syrian Catholic Church in al-Hasakah in Syria .

Location

The cathedral is located about 120 m south of the Armenian Catholic Church and 300 m south of the Chaldean Catholic Church (the location of which is incorrectly indicated by Gcatholic as the location of the Syrian Catholic Cathedral), 200 m west of the Syrian Orthodox St. George's Cathedral , 400 m northwest from the vegetable market Suq al-Hal (سوق الهال للخضار) and 500 m north of the Chabur river .

history

On July 15, 1957, the Syrian Catholic eparchy al-Hasakah was set up, which was elevated to an archparchy on December 3, 1964. The cathedral church was the newly built Church of the Assumption in modern style.

architecture

The church was built entirely of concrete in a modern style and is asymmetrical. This also applies to the bell tower, on which there is a cross.

Diocese and bishop

The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Annunciation of Al-Hasakah is the cathedral church of the Syrian Catholic Archeparchy Hasakah-Nisibi (Archieparchia Hassakensis et Nisibensis Syrorum) . In 2011 it comprised around 35,000 believers in 11 parishes with five priests. Since October 31, 2019, it has been led by Joseph Chamil as Patriarchal Administrator, after Denys Antoine Chahda , Archbishop of Aleppo, born in 1946 , as Apostolic Administrator from July 12, 2019 to October 31, 2019 . Long-time archbishop was Jacques Behnan Hindo from 1996 to 2019 .

Individual evidence

  1. كنيسة القديسة مريم العذراء سيدة الانتقال - الحسكة [Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation - al-Hasakah] (with picture), al-Bishara, accessed on June 18, 2020.
  2. Cathédrale Notre-Dame de l'Assomption / Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption - Al Hasakah, Syria. Gcatholic.org, May 19, 2020, accessed June 20, 2020.
  3. Syriac Archdiocese of Hassaké – Nisibi - Syria. Gcatholic.org, June 16, 2020, accessed June 20, 2020.

Coordinates: 36 ° 30 ′ 8.6 ″  N , 40 ° 44 ′ 48 ″  E