Manhattan · NYC landmark
Former St. George's Syrian Catholic Church
103 Washington Street · Manhattan, New York City
A surviving reminder of Lower Manhattan's Little Syria, with a facade commissioned by the area's Melkite community.
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NYFE Summary
Immigrants from the former Ottoman province of Syria made lower Washington Street a center of commerce and community life. Many came from what is now Lebanon. A Melkite Catholic parish moved into this former boardinghouse and gave it a new church front.
White terra cotta covers the narrow facade, with pointed arches and a colored relief of St. George and the dragon. The building survived after much of the surrounding immigrant neighborhood disappeared.
NYFE summary from the official history and visitor sources linked below.
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