A line of barefoot girls in headscarves and long patterned skirts carry large clay water jars on their backs past a brick wall. Newton & Co lantern slide no. 50 from the series "The Persians, Kurds, and Nestorians, their manners and customs", attributed by the Nelson Collection to Ernest Hoeltzer, late 19th century; published in The Living Races of Mankind (1901) as "Armenians water-carrying (Nestorians)" and by D'Allemagne (1911) as "Jeunes filles Nestoriennes faisant le métier de porteuses d'eau" (young Nestorian women working as water carriers).

Nestorian (Assyrian) girls carrying water jars

The ochre-painted Syriac cultural centre (Syrianska kulturcentret) in the Varberga district of Örebro, photographed in evening light on 9 November 2006.

Syriac cultural centre in Varberga, Örebro

Dancers in Swedish folk costume and members of the Syriac association join hands in a line dance at the Tensta heritage festival (hembygdsfest) in 2000.

Swedish folk dancers and the Syriac association dance together, Tensta

Deacons and altar servers in white robes marked with dark crosses walk up the aisle toward the sanctuary's embroidered red curtains during the Syriac Orthodox Good Friday Mass in Hallunda, 2004.

Good Friday procession inside St Peter and St Paul, Hallunda

The priest addresses a packed congregation, many women in white head coverings, during the Syriac Orthodox Good Friday Mass at the church of St Peter and St Paul in Hallunda on 9 April 2004.

Good Friday Mass at St Peter and St Paul, Hallunda

Exterior of the red-brick Syriac Orthodox church of St Peter and St Paul in Hallunda, Botkyrka, with its gold dome and bell towers. The museum notes it was completed in 2002 and modelled on the old churches of Tur Abdin.

St Peter and St Paul Syriac Orthodox church, Hallunda

Patriarch Abraham Mar Shimun

Mountain refugees in the Russian consulate, Urmia

View over the rooftops of Urmia

British soldier tending a Jilu Assyrian refugee child

Assyrian children in a remote village of Hakkari, c. 1900

Assyrian woman in traditional jewellery at Tel Tamer, 1938

Map of the country of the Assyrian Christians, 1920

Malik Ismail II of Upper Tiyari at Baqubah

Assyrian fighters from Jilu, 1918

Nestorian (Assyrian) house in Tiyari

Nun with a gospel at the Church of the Virgin, Hah, 1909

A Syrian (Assyrian) girl, 1891 engraving

Two Chaldean women of Mardin

Syriac and Chaldean women and girls of Mardin province

Jilu Assyrian refugees cooking with a British soldier, 1918

Tiyari (Assyrian) refugees helped by the Armenian Committee in Urmia, 1917

Elderly Assyrian man at Tel Tamer, 1938

Assyrian refugees from Tiyari and Tkhuma encamped near Urmia, 1915

Entrance to the Syriac Orthodox church of St. Mark, Jerusalem

Syriac-rite Mass with Cardinal Tappouni at the 1937 Paris Exposition

Bear hunters at Qudshanis

Archbishop Julius Abdulahad Gallo Shabo at a church founding ceremony, Örebro

Jilu Assyrian mother giving her child a drink, 1918

Jacobite (Syriac Orthodox) women drawing water at Midyat, Tur Abdin

Nestorian (Assyrian) Christian family, studio portrait by Sevruguin

Stera and Warina, survivors of the massacres

Faces, places & memories of the Assyrian people.

Syriac cultural centre in Varberga, Örebro

Swedish folk dancers and the Syriac association dance together, Tensta

Good Friday procession inside St Peter and St Paul, Hallunda

Good Friday Mass at St Peter and St Paul, Hallunda

St Peter and St Paul Syriac Orthodox church, Hallunda

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