A priest and deacons in white vestments read at the lectern of the Syriac Orthodox church in Hengelo, under a chandelier and processional cross. Anefo photographed the service on 15 January 1981, when about 150 people gathered in the church to support a man and his wife whose asylum request had been refused.

Syriac Orthodox priest celebrating the liturgy in Hengelo, 1981

A young man in a white-sleeved shirt and striped trousers stands beside a weathered rock-cut Assyrian stele inscribed with cuneiform. Gertrude Bell's archive identifies him as Shim'un, brother of Kas Mattai, pastor of the Protestant Nestorians, on 14 May 1909.

Shim'un, brother of Kasha Mattai, beside an Assyrian rock relief

Drawn facsimile of a plate of the Quilon (Tharisapalli) copper plates of 849, with witnesses' signatures in Kufic Arabic, Pahlavi and Hebrew scripts. The plates record a royal grant of land and privileges to the church of the Syrian Christian leader Maruvan Sapir Iso near Kollam. Published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1843.

Witness signatures on the Quilon Syrian copper plates of 849

The Danish traveller Frits Holm stands beside the Xi'an Stele (the 'Nestorian Monument' of 781, recording the Church of the East's arrival in China) in the open ground outside Xi'an, before the stone was moved into the Forest of Steles in 1907. Plate from Holm's 1909 account of his expedition.

The Xi'an Stele in the open field before its removal, 1907

A chest-shaped gravestone in the Spurghan cemetery carved with a hunter and animals, framed by lattice and rosette patterns.

Gravestone carved with a hunting scene, Spurghan cemetery, Urmia

A chest-shaped gravestone in the Assyrian cemetery of Spurghan, its side panel carved with a row of dancing figures inside a border of geometric patterns.

Gravestone carved with folk dancers, Spurghan cemetery, Urmia

A weathered stone in the cemetery of Spurghan (Supurghan) on the Urmia plain, carved with lines of Syriac script commemorating a metropolitan of the Church of the East; the source dates the stone 1569.

Syriac gravestone of a Church of the East metropolitan, Spurghan, 1569

Refugee girls from the Kurdistan mountains

Jilu Assyrian mother carrying her child on her back

"Americans of Assyrian lineage", group portrait published 1921

Assyro-Chaldean delegation to the Paris Peace Conference

Assyrian refugees moving to a new village, Jazira, 1939

Christian women of Koi Sanjaq, about 1919

Asleh Qambar and her son Iskhaq, Urmia, about 1900

Assyrian orphanage and school in Beirut

Sister of the Nestorian Patriarch with family, Baqubah

Consecration of the Virgin Mary church in Paramus, 1968

Karima, aged 13, from Naayem's account of the massacres

Map of a proposed Nestorian (Assyrian) enclave north of Mosul, about 1920

Assyrian National School Association memorial dinner programme, 1937

Kala Ismail Agha, near the site of a massacre

Patriarch Ignatius Elias III of the Syriac Orthodox Church, about 1924

Monk before the bishop's tower of Mor Yuhanon Tayoyo, 1909

A Nestorian (Assyrian) mother and her little girl, 1843 lithograph

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

Ordination certificate of Nestoris Gewargis Malik

Harput Assyrians of Worcester honour Lady Surma, 4 July 1926

Assyrian workers at the Ytong factory, Kumla

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

Ancient Nestorian church at Mar Sergis and Mart Mariam, Urmia

Syriac family of Harput before the Sayfo

Bishop Mar Zaya Sargis of Jilu with his infant nephew Isho, 1912

Syriac engagement in the association hall, Landskrona

Column of refugees on the flight from Urmia, 1918

Assyrian boy with a stick

Faces, places & memories of the Assyrian people.