 Fr Habib, the Chaldean Catholic Priest in London | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 3,000-4,000 [1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| London | |
| Languages | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity (majority: Syriac Christianity; minority: Protestantism) |
British Assyrians are British people of Assyrian descent or Assyrians who have British citizenship.
They are indigenous to present-day northern Iraq, southeast Turkey, northwestern Iran and Syria. They speak Syriac and are predominantly Christian.
Concentrations of Assyrians are found in Greenford and in Hanwell, both towns within the London Borough of Ealing.[2] Assyrians in the UK and other western countries mostly migrated from Iran, Iraq, Jordan, and Syria. Migration was largely triggered by long standing ethnic and religious persecution in their homeland.
- ^ "This figure is an estimate from the Assyrian Cultural and Advice Centre" [1] at Iraqi Assyrians in London: Beyond the 'Immigrant/Refugee' Divide; Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, 1995
- ^ Assyriac: Denied in Its Own Homeland, But Accepted in England Archived 12 February 2002 at the Wayback Machine