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

Place: Tur Abdin · today Türkiye
Date: 1909

A smiling nun in a dark headwrap stands beside a stone book rest holding an ornate metal gospel cover outside the west porch of the Church of the Virgin (El Adra) at Hah in Tur Abdin. Photographed by Gertrude Bell in May 1909.

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Wikimedia Commons (from the Gertrude Bell Archive, Newcastle University)

Gertrude Bell · Wikimedia Commons license: Public domain ({{PD-old-70}})

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

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