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Church of Mar Shalita at Qudshanis, 1894

Place: Qudshanis · today Türkiye
Date: 1894

The stone church of Mar Shalita at Qudshanis, seat of the Mar Shimun patriarchs, on its rocky outcrop among trees. Photographed by Hermann Burchardt; the original is in the Berlin Ethnological Museum, which may hold a sharper copy.

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

Hermann Burchardt · No rights statement on the gallery; images carry a MarShimun.com watermark and the caption's own source credit.

Church of Mar Shalita at Qudshanis, 1894

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