Preserving, digitize and make available the Syriak manuscripts of Virgin Mary Church owned by the Syriac Catholic Foundation. The collectionnow covers a wide range of materials varying from baptistery records, and priest diaries to those of metropolitans and patriarchs, from daily life activities to visitor lists, as well as prayer books printed or handwritten in Arabic, Syriac and Latin. For a Syriac individual, these church records are the only material to trace the roots of his/her identity. These records present information on the activities of the church, transformations in the socio- economic and demographic character of the Syriac community, as well as the local, national and international relationships of the same community.