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Raising the Statue of Jesus Christ in Maalula – Damascus
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2009-12-21
Raising the Statue of Jesus Christ in Maalula – Damascus
The inauguration of the memorial statue of Jesus
Christ in Maalula was in the last week of September. The statue is 3 m high in
St. Thecla monastery. It was sculptured by the famous Russian "Alexander
Rokafishenkov". The traditions still live till the present day and the
cooperation continues between the two peoples and countries, the Russian and
the Syrian. This sculpt is the second work he has dedicated to the Holy Land in
Syria, after the Tell Kokab statue of St. Paul (Damascus countryside). It is now
being planned to erect the 30-m Statue of Jesus Christ in Cherubim convent in
Seidnaya.
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