The
West Syrian Rite, also known as the
Syrian Rite or the
Syro-Antiochene Rite, is a
Christian liturgical rite chiefly practiced in the
Syriac Orthodox Church and churches related to or descended from it. It is part of the liturgical family known as the
Antiochene Rite, which originated in the ancient
Patriarchate of Antioch. The rite was largely an adaptation of the old
Greek liturgy of Antioch into
Syriac, the language more common in the
Syrian countryside. Into this framework a great number of other
anaphoras have been adapted, so that the West Syrian Rite has more variant forms than any other.