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Priests and deacons of the Nestorian (Assyrian) church, Baghdad, 1919

Place: Baghdad · today Iraq
Date: 1919

Six priests and deacons of the Church of the East in mountain dress and turbans, three seated and three standing, in front of a tent at Baghdad in 1919.

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Shedd, The Measure of a Man (1922), via Internet Archive

Mary Lewis Shedd · Public domain (published 1922)

Priests and deacons of the Nestorian (Assyrian) church, Baghdad, 1919

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