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English: One of the Ciqikou crosses found on a street by the Syriac Orthodox priest Dale Albert Johnson in 2011, is dated to the 9th century and fundamentally identical to crosses found in Aleppo, Syria. See also "Church of the East in Sichuan". An excerpt from Johnson, Dale Albert (2016) "Syriac Crosses in Central and Southwest China" in Winkler, Dietmar W. , ed. Winds of Jingjiao: Studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia, "orientalia – patristica – oecumenica" series (vol. 9), p. 44 : "Comparative Evidence — The cross identified by the author in Ciqikou on October 1, 2011 is fundamentally identical to crosses found in Aleppo, Syria (6th c.), Tur Abdin, Turkey (8th–9th c.), Iran (? c.), and in the Uigher autonomous region of Northwest China (14th c.). These crosses are scattered along the Silk Road from Syria to China. These crosses date from the 6th–14th centuries."