Church of the Holy Cross ( hy, Սուրբ Խաչ, ''Sourp khach''; ar, كنيسة الصليب المقدس) is an Armenian Catholic Church in the Ouroubeh district of

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The consecration of the church took place on 24 April 1993, on the 78 anniversary of the

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was ...

. It is the work of the Aleppine-Armenian architect Sarkis Balmanougian. The church has a single dome with a belfry at the entrance. During the Syrian Civil War and after the break-up of the Battle of Aleppo in 2012, the seat of the Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo was temporarily moved to the Holy Cross Church, as the original seat of the diocese the Cathedral of Our Mother of Reliefs was frequently being shelled by the Islamist rebels. As of April 2010, Father Nerses Zabbarian is the parish priest of Holy Cross church.

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File:Church of the Holy Cross, Aleppo (3).jpg, Day view of the church File:Holy Cross Church, Aleppo.jpg, Night view of the church File:Holy Cross Church, Aleppo, 31 May 2014.jpg, Interior view of the church

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Armenian Catholic churches in Syria {{ArmenianCatholic-church-stub

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