Wichita's Lebanese heritage

Wichita, a city of entrepreneurs, offered an ideal home for Middle Eastern Christians who started arriving in the 1890s. Initially identifying themselves as Syrians, they operated as peddlers across southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma. Peddling rapidly gave way to wholesale, grocery, and dry goods companies. Patriarchs such as N. F. Farha and E. G. Stevens established themselves in local business and civic circles....The Lebanese established two churches, St. George Orthodox Church and St. Mary Orthodox Christian Church, that became focal points of community life.

שנה

2010

שפה

English

סדרה

Images of America

הוצאה

Arcadia Pub.

מהדורות

1

עמודים

127

ISBN

9780738577173

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata