Both of these men are now glorified saints in the Orthodox Church. He would travel to Wilkes-Barre to care for the people here. Protopresbyter Alexis Toth, at the Holy Resurrection Russian Orthodox Cathedral on North Main Street in Wilkes-Barre, or by the Archimandrite Raphael Hawaweeney, who became pastor in 1895 of the first Syrian Orthodox church in America, Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church in Brooklyn. George “Al-Humaireh” stands, came from the villages of Mishtay, Zwaitini, and Matn Arnook.Īll these families initially had their baptisms and marriages served either by Russian Orthodox priests, particularly the Very Rev. Those who came from the Wadi-Nasaara, in the Al-Husson Valley where the famed Monastery of St. Those who came from the Al-Koura came from the villages of Feeh, Buturam, Kyssba, Doraya, Bishmazeen, Baynu, as well as the city of Tripoli.
In this period the families, Atiyeh, Audi, Broody, Gazey, Hyder, Karam, Saba, Serhan, and Simon, came from the area known as Al-Koura in Northern Lebanon overlooking Tripoli, and the families Abraham, Baroody, Bitar, Cross, Johns, Mecherki/Moses, Namey, and Solomon arrived from the area of the Wadi-Nasaara, an area of many Christian villages, in north-western Syria, close to the Mediterranean Sea. The year 1892 marked the first migration of an Antiochian Orthodox family to Wilkes-Barre.
The first immigrants from Syria and Lebanon came to NE Pennsylvania in the 1890’s.
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