CHURCH BUILDING
Surp Hagop Church
Aleppo · Old Syriac Quarter · Armenian Apostolic
A brief history
Surp Hagop, meaning Saint Jacob or Saint James, is a small Armenian Apostolic church on al-Iman Street in the Old Syriac quarter of Aleppo. It opened in 1943 and was enlarged in 1962, a modest building serving a neighbourhood where Armenian and Syriac Christians have long lived side by side.
Saints & traditions
The church was enlarged within twenty years of opening, a sign of how quickly the quarter's congregation grew.