Sourp Nshan Cathedral, Beirut

Beirut, Lebanon

Sourp Nshan Cathedral (Sourp Nshan yekeghets, lit. 'Church of the Holy Seal', also rendered, Saint Nishan Church, Surb Nshan Cathedral) is an Armenian Apostolic cathedral situated in the Beirut Central District of Beirut, Lebanon. It stands on Serail Hill, directly adjacent to the Grand Sérail, the official seat of the Lebanese Prime Minister. The cathedral functions as the seat of the Armenian Apostolic Diocese of Lebanon within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia, headquartered in Antelias, a suburb of Beirut. Its parish registers, which survive from 1863, constitute the oldest continuously kept sacramental records of any Armenian church in Lebanon.

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