A young Suryani girl sings with the female choir group during late afternoon mass at Mor Barsavmo Church in Midyat in the Tur Abdin region of southeastern Turkey on Saturday, February 8, 2003. The ancient tradition continues, two choirs, each clustered around a lectern, sing hymns from a large book with Aramaic writing. There is a female choir, made up of girls and young women, and a male choir, made up of boys and sometimes men. The Suryani are Syrian Orthodox Christians, a semitic people...
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A young Suryani girl sings with the female choir group during late afternoon mass at Mor Barsavmo Church in Midyat in the Tur Abdin region of southeastern Turkey on Saturday, February 8, 2003. The ancient tradition continues, two choirs, each clustered around a lectern, sing hymns from a large book with Aramaic writing. There is a female choir, made up of girls and young women, and a male choir, made up of boys and sometimes men. The Suryani are Syrian Orthodox Christians, a semitic people living in the area historically known as northern Mesopotamia, the Tur Abdin region, for about 5,000 years. They are one of the oldest cultures to have adopted Christianity, doing so some 300 years before the Romans...
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