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MIDDLE EAST CHURCHES
Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, protagonists of a frequently forgotten history in Occident, are only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the "living stones" as often are defined the oriental christian churches, a world that currently menaces to die down in the same places in which Christianity born. Between the walls of convents often isolated in deserts and mountains, rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality. Among Syriac mountains, in Maàloula where people still speek in Aramaic, in the middle of the Egyptian desert in Deir al Qaddis Antwan where St. Antony in the Desert in the fourth Century built the firts monastery of the Christian History, or in the age-old churches in the Coptic area in Old Cairo.

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  • Seidnaya. The syrian-orthodox monastery on the Anti-Lebanon mountains, north of Damascus. Builded in 574 A.D. it' s still a important pilgrimage's destination. Holy mass for Virgin's holiday.
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  • Seidnaya. The syrian-orthodox monastery on the Anti-Lebanon mountains, north of Damascus. Builded in 574 A.D. it' s still a important pilgrimage's destination. Holy mass for Virgin's holiday.
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  • Seidnaya. The syrian-orthodox monastery on the Anti-Lebanon mountains, north of Damascus. Builded in 574 A.D. it' s still a important pilgrimage's destination. Holy mass for Virgin's holiday.
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  • Seidnaya. The syrian-orthodox monastery on the Anti-Lebanon mountains, north of Damascus. Builded in 574 A.D. it' s still a important pilgrimage's destination. Holy mass for Virgin's holiday.
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  • Seidnaya. The syrian-orthodox monastery on the Anti-Lebanon mountains, north of Damascus. Builded in 574 A.D. it' s still a important pilgrimage's destination. Holy mass for Virgin's holiday.
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  • Seidnaya. The syrian-orthodox monastery on the Anti-Lebanon mountains, north of Damascus. Builded in 574 A.D. it' s still a important pilgrimage's destination. Holy mass for Virgin's holiday.
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  • Seidnaya. The syrian-orthodox monastery on the Anti-Lebanon mountains, north of Damascus. Builded in 574 A.D. it' s still a important pilgrimage's destination. Holy mass for Virgin's holiday.
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  • Seidnaya. The syrian-orthodox monastery on the Anti-Lebanon mountains, north of Damascus. Builded in 574 A.D. it' s still a important pilgrimage's destination. Holy mass for Virgin's holiday.
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  • Seidnaya. The syrian-orthodox monastery on the Anti-Lebanon mountains, north of Damascus. Builded in 574 A.D. it' s still a important pilgrimage's destination. Holy mass for Virgin's holiday.
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  • Seidnaya. Seidnaya's monastery, many Syria's christians comes to Seidnaya to baptise their children. The syrian-orthodox monastery on the Anti-Lebanon mountains, north of Damascus. Builded in 574 A.D. it' s still a important pilgrimage's destination. Holy mass for Virgin's holiday.
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  • Seidnaya. The syrian-orthodox monastery on the Anti-Lebanon mountains, north of Damascus. Builded in 574 A.D. it' s still a important pilgrimage's destination. Holy mass for Virgin's holiday.
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  • Seidnaya. The syrian-orthodox monastery on the Anti-Lebanon mountains, north of Damascus. Builded in 574 A.D. it' s still a important pilgrimage's destination. Holy mass for Virgin's holiday.
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  • Seidnaya. The syrian-orthodox monastery on the Anti-Lebanon mountains, north of Damascus. Builded in 574 A.D. it' s still a important pilgrimage's destination. Holy mass for Virgin's holiday.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Every year in September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon .celebrates the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then the  youngpeople burns old tyres and remains on the hills until the dawn, then comes back to village.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Every year in September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon .celebrates the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then the  youngpeople burns old tyres and remains on the hills until the dawn, then comes back to village.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Every year in September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon .celebrates the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then the  youngpeople burns old tyres and remains on the hills until the dawn, then comes back to village.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • Ma'aloula, is the last place where the people still speaks aramaich, the language of Jesus Christ. Until the bloody civil war every September thousands Christian pilgrims coming from all the Syria and near Lebanon <br />
celebrated the "Holy Cross holiday", that recalls the Jesus Christ' s Cross from Saint Helen, mother of roman emperor Constantin. At sunset the young people goes up two mountains surrounding the village, one for catholic people, other for greek-orthodox. Then burns old tyres on the hills until the dawn.
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  • Damascus, christian maronite marriage.
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  • Damascus, christian maronite marriage.
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  • Damascus, christian maronite marriage.
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  • Damascus, christian maronite marriage.
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  • Damascus, christian maronite marriage.
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  • Qalaat Semân, St. Simeon Basylica (473 A.C.). The stump of the stylite's column, once 18 meters high, is the focal point of the great structure built to commemorate the saint.
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  • Qalaat Semân, St. Simeon Basylica (473 A.C.). The stump of the stylite's column, once 18 meters high, is the focal point of the great structure built to commemorate the saint.
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  • Beirut Maronite worker in a textile factory. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the ?living stones? as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • Beirut Maronite worker in a textile factory. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the ?living stones? as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • Beirut Maronite worker in a textile factory. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the ?living stones? as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • maronite monastery in Lebanon's northern mountains. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the ?living stones? as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • Mar Antonios maronite monastery near Becharre; is one of the most important holy places for christian .maronites of Lebanon. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the ?living stones? as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the ?living stones? as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the ?living stones? as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • greek-ortodox monastery of "Nôtre Dame de Balamand" .in northern Lebanon. .Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the ?living stones? as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • Cairo, the last potters, a traditional coptic christian minority activity. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the "living stones" as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, in the night the monks prepare the bread. The monastey, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries. Coptics, Greek Orthodox, Syrians, only few components of the fragmented galaxy of the "living stones" as often are defined the oriental christian churches, are the protagonists of a frequently forgotten world that currently menaces to die in the same places in which Christianity born. Rituals and stories similar to legends lost in time survive intact and in these places regain the strenght of a living reality.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, the Holy Mass. The monastey, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries. The monastery has a complex internal organisation that guarantees a total autonomy.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries. The monastery has a complex internal organisation that guarantees a total autonomy.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries. The monastery has a complex internal organisation that guarantees a total autonomy.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries. The monastery has a complex internal organisation that guarantees a total autonomy. The fortified tower to protect against frequent attacks from Bedouins.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries. The monastery has a complex internal organisation that guarantees a total autonomy. The fortified tower to protect against frequent attacks from Bedouins.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries. The monastery has a complex internal organisation that guarantees a total autonomy.
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  • St Antony coptic monastery, nestled amount the mountains near the Red sea, is the oldest and biggest of the Coptics monasteries, founded in 4th century from disciples of St Antony. Here, in this desert, is born the Christian experience of the monks and monasteries. The monastery has a complex internal organisation that guarantees a total autonomy. Image of St Antony who lived as hermit in a nearby cave.
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  • St. Paul Coptic monastery nestled in the mountains near  the Red Sea, built upon the cave where lived the first hermit, St Paul. Image of St Paul of Thebes (228-348 AD).
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  • St. Paul Coptic monastery nestled in the mountains near  the Red Sea, built upon the cave where lived the first hermit, St Paul. Coptic pilgrims coming from Upper Egypt.
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