Living Heritage of Antakya’s Dom

The study, which explores collective memory, everyday practices, and spatial use, reveals that despite facing exclusion and invisibility, Dom neighborhoods possess strong traditions of solidarity and a rich communal culture. It highlights that the Dom community is an integral part of Antakya’s multilayered social fabric.

The report underscores the need for a community-based and just reconstruction approach that supports the Dom people in preserving and carrying their living heritage into the future. Rebuilding Antakya, it stresses, requires not only restoring physical structures but also strengthening the social bonds, shared knowledge, and cultural relationships that hold the city’s diverse communities together.