CHURCH BUILDING
Mar Assia al-Hakim Church
Aleppo · Jdeydeh · Syriac Catholic
- Locality
- Aleppo · Jdeydeh
- Tradition
- Syriac Catholic
- Type of place
- CHURCH BUILDING
- Coordinates
- 36.20619° N, 37.15618° E
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History: Mar Assia al-Hakim Church
Mar Assia al-Hakim is a Syriac Catholic church in Jdeydeh, the quarter Aleppo’s Christians founded outside the walls after Tamerlane destroyed the city in 1400. The church was rebuilt in 1500 as the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Syrians, and between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries it was the seat of the Syriac Catholic Patriarchate. When the diocese moved to a new cathedral in 1970, the old church took the name of Mar Assia al-Hakim, Saint Assia the Wise.
An interesting detail
The church was damaged during the Aleppo massacre of 1850, and in 2012 shelling destroyed its bell tower, which dated from 1881.