Joseph Yacoub, a specialist in Eastern Christians, examines Syria’s historical identity, highlighting its neglected Christian ...
The Umayyad Mosque is also distinguished by being the first mosque in which the mihrab and the apse appeared as a result of the building style that was the former Church of John the Baptist. As for ...
“I go to First Baptist Church of Damascus. The whole church, they lost everything, we’re rebuilding it right now; we have to meet at a middle school. Seeing my whole town just destroyed has ...
By AFP, Damascus Syria's tiny Jewish community said they held their first group prayer in decades on Feb. 19, in a synagogue ...