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Lines of refugees awaiting the patriarch's consecration, Baqubah, 1920

Place: Baqubah · today Iraq
Date: 1920

Assyrian men and boys line both sides of a wide avenue through the Baqubah refugee camp on the day of Mar Eshai Shimun XXIII's consecration, June 20, 1920.

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

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Lines of refugees awaiting the patriarch's consecration, Baqubah, 1920

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