One can walk easily to any part of the center; the modern city is quite compact. The mountains upon whose slopes the city was built make the city singularly attractive. The Old City is the part directly on the slope. The districts here are made up of streets that are so narrow that only one vehicle may pass at a time; districts of this kind may be found in Jerusalem. These narrow streets were made from the same cobblestones as those of the Romans.

The streets contains row upon row of one- and two-story Middle-Eastern-style houses that have small courtyards in their center. The rooms are built in a circle around the courtyard so that one must pass through it to reach any other room in the house; on a rainy day one would get wet while going from one's room to the kitchen. Two of these streets are named "Church Street 1" and "Church Street 2." Both of these streets open out onto Antioch's Orthodox Church. The Christian population lived in these ancient houses woven around the Orthodox Church until as late as the mid-1900s; the descendents of congregations formed during the first century actually lived together until recent times. The population of Orthodox Christians faithful to the Greek tradition of theology, but regionally part of the Arab Orthodox diocese of Damascus, number about 2,500 today. According to the church registry and the city books, the Orthodox population represented about 25% of the city's people during the early 1900s.The effects of immigration due to economic difficulties has greatly decreased this percentage. For this reason one can find Antiochian Christians in countries such as the USA, Germany, France, Holland, Australia, Italy and the Scandinavian countries.

In modern Antioch, one will find a Turkish-speaking Roman Catholic Church, an Apostolic Church, Turkish-speaking Evangelical congregations and a Korean Protestant Church. Even more noteworthy is the fact that hundreds of institutions, including churches, institutes, organizations, universities, and even cities throughout the world can be found that have taken "Antioch" as part of their name.

This article is written by the film's co-producer, Enis Sakirgil, himself an Antiochian.