Wichita’s Lebanese Heritage (Images of America)

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Wichita, a city of entrepreneurs, offered a super home for Middle Eastern Christians who began arriving within the 1890s. To start with identifying themselves as Syrians, they operated as peddlers across southern Kansas and northerly Oklahoma. Peddling abruptly gave strategy 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. Primarily Eastern Orthodox, the Lebanese established two churches, St. George Orthodox Church and St. Mary Orthodox Christian Church, that changed into focal points of community life. After World War II, entrepreneurs responded to new opportunities, from real estate to supermarkets to the professions. In up to date decades, an extra wave of immigrants from war-torn Lebanon has continued the entrepreneurial tradition.

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