Middle East, Eastern Churches-The living stones
58 images Created 13 Dec 2008
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.
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.
