{"id":121560,"date":"2017-12-16T20:59:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T18:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=121560"},"modified":"2017-12-17T10:29:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T08:29:45","slug":"start-of-christmas-holiday-season-announced-at-al-zeitoun-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=121560","title":{"rendered":"Start of Christmas holiday season announced at al-Zeitoun Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA \u2013 The oldest Eastern Church, the Cathedral of the Dormition of Our Lady, also known as al-Zeitoun Church, announced on Saturday the start of the Christmas holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>The festivities began with a celebration titled &#8220;And the Joy Grows&#8221; hosted by the Cathedral of Dormition of our Lady in the al-Zeitoun quarter in the Old City. This event is the result of a joint work which is first of its kind between the Syrian National Orchestra and al-Farah Choir to celebrate the 25th anniversary founding the choir.<a href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/\u0643\u0646\u064a\u0633\u0629-\u0627\u0644\u0632\u064a\u062a\u0648\u06461.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-121561 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/\u0643\u0646\u064a\u0633\u0629-\u0627\u0644\u0632\u064a\u062a\u0648\u06461-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Orchestra, conducted by Missak Baghboudarian, with al-Farah choir, conducted by Habib Suleiman, performed Arabic and international songs in their original languages representing the Christmas spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Maya Dayoub \/ Hazem Sabbagh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA \u2013 The oldest Eastern Church, the Cathedral of the Dormition of Our Lady, also known as al-Zeitoun Church, announced on Saturday the start of the Christmas holiday season. The festivities began with a celebration titled &#8220;And the Joy Grows&#8221; hosted by the Cathedral of Dormition of our Lady in the al-Zeitoun quarter in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,22],"tags":[15742,3709,6884,15744,15743],"class_list":["post-121560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-local","category-slide","tag-al-zeitoun-church","tag-christmas","tag-damascus","tag-joy-choir","tag-syrian-national-orchestra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}