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Crowds at the consecration of Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII, Baqubah, 1920

Place: Baqubah · today Iraq
Date: 1920

A dense crowd of Assyrian refugees, men in turbans and women with parasols, gathered among the tents of the Baqubah camp for the consecration of the boy patriarch Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII on June 20, 1920.

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Mar Shimun Memorial Foundation (marshimun.com), photo gallery

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Crowds at the consecration of Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII, Baqubah, 1920

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