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Forty Martyrs Cathedral

Aleppo, Syria

The Forty Martyrs Armenian Cathedral (Kanīsa al-ʿarbaʾīn šahīd, S. K’arrasnits’ Mankants’ Mayr Yekeghets’i) of Aleppo, Syria, is a 15th-century Armenian Apostolic church located in the old Christian quarter of Jdeydeh. It is significant among the Armenian churches for being one of the oldest active churches in the Armenian diaspora and the city of Aleppo. It is a three-nave basilica church with no dome. Its bell tower, of 1912, is considered to be one of the unique samples of the baroque architecture in Aleppo.

Church data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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