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Church of Mar Zaya at Mata d-Mar Zaya, Jilu, 1912

Place: Jilu · today Türkiye
Date: 1912

The stone church of Mar Zaya, with a ladder leaning on its flat roof, stands above terraced slopes in the village of Mata d-Mar Zaya in Jilu, Hakkari. Photographed by the Russian officer Sergei Olferiev in 1912.

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Sergei Petrovich Olferiev · Wikimedia Commons license: Public domain ({{PD-old-70}})

Church of Mar Zaya at Mata d-Mar Zaya, Jilu, 1912

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