Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to lay the cornerstone for the construction of first Syriac church built from scratch in the history of modern Turkey
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to lay the cornerstone for the construction of the first Syriac church built from scratch since the Turkish Republic was founded in 1923,The church will be built in Istanbul’s Yesilkoy, the neighbourhood that has the largest Syriac population in the city.
The Church was planned to be built in 2015, in an area at an Italian cemetery that was used until 1950, but the construction was suspended due to legal problems. "[President] Erdogan will be the first head of state to both grant the permission for a church and the first to attend the ceremony to lay the cornerstone of it," Sait Susin, the head of the Syriac Church FoundationAccording to Susin, the church is expected to open in two years with the financial contribution of the Syriac community.
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