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Mar Shimun, Patriarch of the Church of the East

Date: 1910s

Seated portrait of Mar Shimun in a dark turban and robe with a pectoral cross, from a Bain News Service negative that was published in the El Paso Herald on 15 June 1918. Given the date, this is likely Mar Benyamin Shimun (1887-1918).

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Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection

Bain News Service · No known restrictions on publication.

Mar Shimun, Patriarch of the Church of the East

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