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Mar Benyamin as a boy with the missionary W. H. Browne, Qudshanis, 1894

Place: Qudshanis · today Türkiye
Date: 1894

The boy Mar Benyamin Shimun, future patriarch, sits on a wooden ladder beside the English missionary William Henry Browne and Petros, possibly the patriarchal steward, before Browne's newly built house at Qudshanis.

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

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Mar Benyamin as a boy with the missionary W. H. Browne, Qudshanis, 1894

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