Damascus-SANA
In order to enhance the preservation of folklore and the culture of love and peace, the Sisters of Saint George’s Brotherhood from the Saint Ephrem Syriac Center organized today a cultural evening entitled “The Intangible Heritage of the Town of Sadad” at Saint Elias Church in Damascus.
The evening included a lecture in which the engineer and researcher Nile Al-Hay shed light on the intangible cultural heritage of the town of Sadad in the Homs countryside, which actually dates back to the second millennium BC, indicating that the word “Sadad” means people who love and cling to their homeland, and the neighborhood referred to the mystical heritage of the village, which aspires to universality. It is represented by the melodies of Saint Ephrem the Syrian, including 1,600 tunes that are still inherited in Sadad, some of which were chanted in one of the London churches, in addition to the arts and folk traditions in the village such as poetry, singing, music, stories, proverbs, marriage customs and various occasions, and support the neighborhood talking about the heritage of Sadad and the traditions of its people by showing a video of a group of centenarians In the village, those who sang their rituals in the village, wedding henna customs, folk songs on the rabab, the dabkeh, and the songs associated with joy and weddings, and others that were repeated at funerals and sorrows, the official of the Saint Georges brotherhood of the Syriac Orthodox of the Saint Ephrem “Tabalah” center, Josephine Al-Nour.
She indicated in a statement to "SANA" that the evening reflected some of the customs and traditions inherited by the people of the village in addition to its history, so it gave a lesson in steadfastness and exported its art, thought and heritage to the world despite the years of the terrorist war on Syria. Folk songs for children and young people from Sadad.
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