Cathedral of St. Ephraem the Syrians

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Saint Ephrem the Syrian Cathedral in Aleppo, 2011
Divine service in the cathedral, 2006. The inscriptions are in Syrian .

The Cathedral of Saint Ephraem the Syrians ( Arabic كاتدرائية مار أفرام السرياني, DMG Kātidrāʾīyat Mār Afrām as-Suryānī ) is the cathedral of the Syrian Orthodox Church in the Syrian city ​​of Aleppo . It is located in the Sulaimaniyah district.

history

After the church divisions, the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch had not been present in Aleppo for a long time from the 16th century. This changed with the influx of believers from areas that now belong to Turkey , first after the massacres of 1895 and then the genocide of the Syrian Christians in the course of the First World War . The fleeing Syrian Orthodox Assyrians came mainly from Tur Abdin with the Aramaic dialect Turoyo , from Diyarbakir , Urfa , Mardin and the respective surroundings of the cities mentioned. Initially, a makeshift church in Suq al-Nahhasin in the Qastal al-Harami district served the Syrian Orthodox refugees in Aleppo as a place of prayer. Many Assyrians found a new home in Aleppo in the Sulaymaniyah district, where Salim bin Anton Naoum Azar donated a piece of land. The Church of Saint Ephrem the Syrian (Mar Avram Al-Syriani) was built here. On April 30, 1924, construction began under the Homser Bishop Ignatius Ephrem I Barsum , and on January 17, 1926, the new Cathedral of Saint Ephrem the Syrians was opened by the Patriarch Ignatius Elias III. consecrated. In 1965, under Archbishop Georgios al-Qas Behnam, the building was expanded on the west side and provided with a dome and a bell. Under Archbishop Gregorius Yohanna Ibrahim , the cathedral was equipped with new oil paintings and icons in 1983 and again in 1995.

During the civil war in Syria , the Syrian Orthodox Archbishop Gregorius Yohanna Ibrahim, who lives in the cathedral, was abducted at gunpoint together with the Greek Orthodox Archbishop Paul Yazigi in April 2013. Since then there has been no sign of life from the two clergymen. Butros Kassis took over the leadership of the archdiocese on behalf of the missing Yohanna Ibrahim.

Interior

In the Saint Ephrem the Syrian Cathedral there are frescoes made by the clergyman Abdo Badawi on the basis of Syrian manuscripts.

Numerous old Syrian manuscripts are also kept in the church itself.

Web links

Commons : Cathedral of Saint Ephraem the Syrians  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Church body calls for release of Syrian archbishops still missing after six years. Christian Today, April 12, 2019.

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