PhotographAA-0283

Mor Gabriel monastery, south door, Tur Abdin, 1909

Place: Tur Abdin · today Türkiye
Date: 1909

The south door of the Syriac Orthodox monastery of Mor Gabriel (Deir el-'Umar) near Midyat, with a monk and village men and boys standing in front. Bell captioned it "Mar Gabriel, S door of monastery"; photographed 20 May 1909.

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Wikimedia Commons (from the Gertrude Bell Archive, Newcastle University, GB/3/1/13/1/165)

Gertrude Bell · Public domain

Mor Gabriel monastery, south door, Tur Abdin, 1909

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