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Syrian Catholic church in Mesopotamia during the First World War

Place: Iraq
Date: 1916

A man on a ladder works at the arched doorway of a brick church; the sign above reads "Syrian Roman Catholic Church" beneath a line of non-Latin script. The agency titled it a Syrian church in Mesopotamia in 1916.

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Bibliothèque nationale de France, Gallica (Agence Rol press photographs)

Agence Rol · domaine public / public domain

Reference: Rol 46951; BnF Estampes EI-13 (495)

Syrian Catholic church in Mesopotamia during the First World War

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