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Spring Valley, New York: St. George Syrian Orthodox Church New City, New York: St. John's Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church Staten Island, New York: St. Mary's Syrian Orthodox Church (Malankara) Lynbrook, New York: St. Mary's Syrian Orthodox Church West Nyack, New York: St. Mary's Syrian Orthodox Church White Plains, New York: St. Peter's & St ...
New York Brooklyn Rabbi Yair Alfieh Syrian – Shami 59 Gravesend Neck Road Mill Basin Sephardic Congregation New York Brooklyn Rabbi Yirmi Levy Syrian 2133 East 64th Street, MillBasinsc.com: Mishkan Yerushalaim New York Brooklyn Rabbi Yehoshua Alfieh Syrian – Shami 520 Avenue X Mikdash Eliyahu Synagogue New York Brooklyn Rabbi Avi Harari, Syrian
In 1959, the seat of the Syriac Orthodox Church was transferred to Damascus in Syria. [100] In the mid-1970s, the estimate of Syriac Orthodox living in Syria was 82,000. [103] In 1977, the number of Syriac Orthodox followers in diaspora dioceses was: 9,700 in the Diocese of Middle Europe; 10,750 in the Diocese of Sweden and surrounding ...
In 2005, after the election of Metr. Herman as the ruling hierarch of the OCA and with the retirement of Abp. Peter, the Holy Synod of the OCA re-merged the dioceses of New York and New Jersey and Washington as the Diocese of Washington and New York. St. Nicholas Cathedral in Washington was designated the see of the ruling hierarch.
He founded the Syrian Orthodox congregation and then moved it to Brooklyn's Pacific Street in 1902. In 1920, the congregation relocated to a building built in 1870 that was formerly an Episcopal church at 355 State Street in Boerum Hill , Brooklyn.
In the modern era, the city is home to the world's largest Syrian-Jewish community outside of Israel. 75,000 Syrian Jews live in New York City, mostly in Brooklyn. [1] New York City is also home to a smaller community of Syrian Muslims who have lived in the city for over a century, most of whom have immigrated since the 1960s.
A New Jersey man admitted to a series of violent hate crimes, for driving his car into a group of people and stabbing one because they were Jewish. Man admits violent hate crimes against Orthodox ...
St. George's Syrian Catholic Church is a former church located at 103 Washington Street between Rector Street and Carlisle Street in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. The church is the last physical reminder of the Syrian American and Lebanese American community that once lived in Little Syria .