The Boston Little Syria Project began offering walking tours to school groups and the general public in May 2022.
Walking tours are currently on pause as we focus on digitizing our archive.
To receive updates or to arrange a tour for your group or organization, please reach out to us here. As this is a small, volunteer-operated organization, we urge you to reach out well in advance of the date on which you hope to schedule a tour.
Walking tours stretch from the Chinatown Gate to Peters Park. They cover the reasons that motivated immigration from Ottoman and post-Ottoman Greater Syria to Boston, and the lives of the people who made the trip once they arrived there. They focus on Syrian residences, shops, restaurants, newspapers, churches, social clubs, and boarding houses, as well as individual stories. We examine how Syrians lived in a diverse neighborhood that included other new migrant groups, including Chinese Americans, and how this neighborhood fought to preserve its existence in the face of urban development in the 1950s and beyond.
