CHURCH BUILDING
National Evangelical Presbyterian Church
Latakia · Presbyterian Protestant
- Locality
- Latakia
- Tradition
- Presbyterian Protestant
- Type of place
- CHURCH BUILDING
- Coordinates
- 35.51838° N, 35.77420° E
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History: National Evangelical Presbyterian Church
Latakia's Presbyterian congregation grew from a nineteenth-century mission. Its present church carries a marble inscription dating construction to 1923–1924, after Khalil Awad became the congregation's first Syrian pastor in 1921. In February 2023, the church opened its halls to people frightened by earthquake aftershocks and joined relief work in the city.
An interesting detail
The construction plaque gives the dates in Arabic and English, uses the abbreviation R.P. Church, and includes a line from Psalm 46:5.