Among its important qualities, the (former) St. George’s Syrian Catholic Church is the most significant remnant of the Lower Manhattan immigrant enclave known as the “Syrian Quarter,” the “Mother Colony” of immigrants from the former Ottoman province of Syria, which included present-day Syria and Lebanon. The Syrian Quarter was the commercial and cultural capital in the United States of immigrants from the former Ottoman province of Syria for several decades beginning in the 1880s. It was built in vibrant neo-Gothic style, with a terra-cotta facade which features a polychrome terra-cotta relief of St. George and the Dragon.